Michael Tolkin

Gibson’s Defenders Aren’t Hearing Him Right

Published on August 10, 2006

Let Gibson beg for chastisement, let him call and beg to be told he's been a bad boy, a very bad boy, who needs to be stripped in public and whipped. I'll never give in.

When We Elected Lindbergh

Published on November 11, 2004

Philip Roth was born to a generation that believed in America, and although some of them were like the undertaker in the first scene of "The Godfather," who also believed in America, but went outside the courts for justice -- Roth's parents love their country, or what they remember of it.

Unacceptable

Published on October 23, 2003

After The New Republic's Gregg Easterbrook wrote in his online column that Jewish executives in Hollywood "worship money above all else," he apologized.

Prager’s Tactics Are Lacking

Published on October 10, 2002

Dennis Prager uses half of what I said to the L.A. Times and gives the impression that I am one of those awful leftists who are "either morally confused, immoral or lack courage."

Faith and Proof

Published on March 21, 2002

The Kurdish father living in Sweden kills his daughter because she dishonored the family when she refused the marriage he arranged for her; Andrea Yates kills her children to spare them from her fundamentalist vision of Hell;