Still Waiting
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 14th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
Still Waiting
Messiah came to Jerusalem, a performance of Handel’s masterpiece by a fittingly humble contingent of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra players, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, who brought his brilliant choir, Gächinger Kantorei, from Stuttgart with him. The piece worked its…
Moving The Movement
Was Roe vs. Wade, once seen as a great victory for reproductive freedom, actually the beginning of the end for the women’s movement? In her review of Jeanne Flavin’s Our Bodies, Our Crimes, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, former…
Passing on Petraeus
David Petraeus is the most respected general officer the U.S. Army has produced since Colin Powell, and possibly since Dwight Eisenhower. Rachel Kleinfeld, the executive director of the Truman National Security Project, may be a late entrant to the campaign…