I’ve written a lot over the years about the mistake of authenticity and why the search for something authentic is a mirage that leads you into some dark and ugly corners of human existence. A consequence of that position is that I’m unable, on pains of inconsistency, to criticize a group calling itself Jews for [...]

Sarah Palin was ambushed by Charlie Gibson with a gotcha question about the Bush Doctrine. Well, maybe Palin isn’t an expert on the current president’s doctrine, but, as her hero Virginia Woolf would have it, the governator has a doctrine of one’s own, the Palin Doctrine, which strikes a balance between governmental largess and governmental neglect. Under [...]

Sometimes The Personal Isn’t Political

Forget about the “Drill here, drill now!” jingle. “Drill Baby Drill” is the new and improved Freudian phallic call to action.

Sarah Palin