Jan 31, 2012
The hottest ticket in town right now is the revival of Cabaret, the iconic musical set in 1931 Berlin about a star-crossed romance between Sally Bowles, a young nightclub singer at the Kit Kat Klub, and a naïve young American writer named Cliff Bradshaw.
While the play...
Jan 19, 2012
Less is more. That was the message that New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly gave the Police Foundation Tuesday morning as he offered an upbeat report on the department's accomplishments and innovations over the past year.
In a speech billed as his annual state of...
Jan 12, 2012
How many people must die in a civil conflict before President Barack Obama decides that American intervention is warranted?
Syria is our most urgent test case.
While President Obama has demanded that President Bashar Assad relinquish power and has denounced his ugly...
Dec 14, 2011
Two plays Blood and Gifts, a drama about the origins of America's war in Afghanistan, now at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and Captors, which examines the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann and which ran at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston through last...
Nov 28, 2011
Inspire magazine the now-defunct al-Qaida glossy published for English-speaking militant Muslims didn't send out rejection letters. So we'll probably never know why it ignored a 20-page ode to Osama bin Laden submitted by an aspiring young writer in New York. But the...
Nov 9, 2011
Open mic. Open mouth. Insert foot.
It seems that politicians never learn: Wearing a microphone is like carrying a loaded weapon. You can never be sure when it will go off, or in this case, go live.
The French government is deeply chagrined now we know why it's a...
Nov 7, 2011
It has long been gospel (appropriately enough) in the State Department and American academic circles that the United States has paid a terrible price for its relationship with Israel.
But for Israel, the argument goes, America would be popular in Arab lands and able to...
Oct 21, 2011
The Arab Spring has now witnessed the death of its first Arab dictator. The end of Moammar Gadhafi s mercurial, dictatorial reign is a great achievement mainly for the Libyans who fought for eight months to free their country and also for the Obama administration, which...