Mr. Eugenides rips into the modern left’s impulsive assignment of moral blame to the West:
“In a fundamental sense” may just be the axiomatic Comment is Free phrase. In one sense, responsibility for throwing acid in a schoolgirl’s face may lie with the acid thrower; in a fundamental sense, however, it is actually ours. In one [...]

Jay Nordlinger on the problems of products bearing communist symbols. He also draws my attention to this (close to home) controversy which features further attempts to delegitimize Israel: apparently the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign thinks that student choirs should not be allowed to tour Israel. Clare College always seems to find itself at the centre [...]