Two thoughts on the demise of Chas Freeman, the first on the way we debate Israel, and the second on the claim by many of Freeman’s defenders that being a “realist” was his true sin.
The Freeman episode solidified what had been inchoate in previous Israel-related debates, such as over the recent Gaza War and the   more

There is a famous anecdote from the Suez Crisis in 1956 in which John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower’s secretary of state, privately laments Israel as “the millstone around our necks.” This was something close to the orthodox view of the Jewish state during the era of the State Department Arabists, and it has experienced a revival in   more