David Mamet

A politically correct seder

Published on March 22, 2013

David Mamet's original cartoon.

A note to a stiff-necked people

Published on November 1, 2012

To those Jews planning to vote for Obama: Are you prepared to explain to your children not the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?

Uncle Maury and the Chris-Craft

Published on August 15, 2012

Imagine a new member to the family. The real or prospective son- or daughter-in-law is not sat down and explained the family ways, nor given diagrams, lists and rules for behavior. They are told stories.

At What Cost?

Published on July 25, 2012

It has been suggested that the purpose of a college education is to ease the transition into adulthood. After several decades teaching college-age students, I would agree, only substituting delay and prevent for ease.

Opinion: Conflict, choice and surrender

Published on November 17, 2011

The old joke has it, how many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows — it’s never been tried.

How not to be a stranger in a strange land

Published on October 6, 2010

We all need to be with our own kind.

What Israel means to me

Published on March 13, 2008

Israel is a free society. The rights of the minority, of the oppressed, indeed, of the criminally foolish are protected. Mr. Chomsky would be as free in Israel to pronounce this nonsense as he is in the United States. Were he to move to the Arab world, he would be persecuted as a Jew (as, indeed, he might be in France). And were he, God forbid, persecuted, Israel would offer him a home, under the Right of Return. That is what Israel means to me.

CAT scan of Jimmy Carter’s heart

Published on February 15, 2007