A Dilemma for the Right

In recent weeks leftist colleagues have accused me of being a fast ally of Paul Wolfowitz, George Will, and Charles Krauthammer. I’ve also been told that "rightwingers like you" are trying to dump Secretary-of-State Colin Powell and to replace him with a Zionist hawk. (Someone who should know better, Robert Novak, attributed this position to the "Old Right" as well as to neocons in his syndicated column last week.) On November 25, a fellow-professor asked me whether I agreed with George Will’s latest screed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which, like everything Will writes on this subject, is over the top. … Continue reading A Dilemma for the Right