Monthly Archives: June 2009
At family violence conference in LA
I’m currently in LA for a fascinating conference on family violence, “From Ideology to Inclusion,” which examines alternatives to conventional feminist views of domestic violence. (Glenn Sacks of Fathers & Families is here, and we’re getting along fine.) The event is … Continue reading
Filed under domestic violence, feminism, gender issues
Authoritarians of the world, unite: You have nothing to lose but your rigged elections
My landslide is bigger than yours! So, Russia is resisting G-8 condemnation of the Iranian government’s handling of the election and the post-election process. What a surprise. According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, “”No one is willing to condemn the … Continue reading
Filed under Dmitry Medvedev, Iran, Russia
Copyright and creative freedom
My new column discusses the J.D. Salinger lawsuit to stop the publication of a book called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye that is kinda, sorta a sequel to Catcher in the Rye. My argument: copyright law as it … Continue reading
Filed under books, culture, freedom of the press, intellectual property
Correcting Obama on Father’s Day
In this Washington Times column published yesterday, fathers’ rights advocates Glenn Sacks and Robert Franklin, of Fathers and Families, criticize Barack Obama’s Father’s Day comments. They make some excellent points: Mr. Obama marked Father’s Day 2008 [by] saying fathers have … Continue reading
Filed under fatherhood
Fathers and “paternalists”
About a month ago, I had an op-ed in The Boston Globe about the rise of single motherhood and what it means for fathers — ironically, at a time when equal parenting as an ideal has been making a lot … Continue reading
Filed under fatherhood, feminism, gender issues, men, motherhood, women
New Russia article: Barack Obama’s Moscow trip and U.S.-Russian relations
In anticipation of Barack Obama’s Moscow trip, my new article on U.S.-Russian relations runs in The Weekly Standard. Highlights: Today, more than a year into the Medvedev presidency, it is obvious that there has been no change of course at … Continue reading
Filed under Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Russian-American relations, US foreign policy
Russia/Georgia: Slide to war?
Today’s New York Times has a story on a Georgian defector who is getting a lot of play in the Russian media with claims that Mikhail Saakashvili is mobilizing for a new war with Russia. Does this lend credibility to … Continue reading
Filed under Russia, Russia-Georgia conflict
Thank you, Lord, for not making me politically correct
The other day, I was browsing Lisa Belkin’s “Motherlode” blog on the New York Times website when I stumbled on this post, discsussing the saga of an alleged racial faux pas by “momblogger” Jackie Morgan MacDougall. Apparently, a year ago … Continue reading
Filed under motherhood, political correctness, race
More Kremlin follies: Russia vs. Georgia, redux?
Today’s New York Times has a harsh editorial castigating Moscow’s latest exercise in stupid self-assertion: In a depressing sequel to its petty and destructive war against Georgia last summer, Russia has now cast a petty and destructive veto in the … Continue reading
Filed under Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Russia-Georgia conflict, Vladimir Putin, War
Sotomayor: the right’s great white whale?
Richard Viguerie, one of the lions of conservative activism, thinks the Sonia Sotomayor nomination could invigorate conservatism. Viguerie writes: President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sotomayor has so far managed to unite all wings of the conservative movement — economic, foreign … Continue reading
Filed under law, left and right
