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In The Hoot’s Oct. 16th edition, Leon Markovitz ‘10 published an article, “A few thoughts on Brandeis ‘progressive’ Zionists: J Street,” a piece that was factually inaccurate and completely unrepresentative of J Street’s views. The first argument in this article insists that J Street believes past lobbying activity has intended to fuel the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. […]
This may surprise some of you, but there’s a lot of hypocrisy in Washington these days, and it’s coming from the right side of the aisle. Let’s recap: Back in early 2009, as the economy seemed to be headed toward the greatest depression since the Great one, members of Congress engaged in a heated debate […]
There’s nothing more rewarding to the Western liberal world than when a previously autocratic regime adopts democracy. Afghanistan, once a prime example of authoritarian excesses, has become a shining beacon of liberty to all of the world. After the United States spent billions of dollars and scores of lives in the hopes of creating a […]
When the history of the Internet is written, Geocities.com will probably be a footnote. Still, I can’t help but feel regret that Yahoo! will be closing the 15-year-old website this Monday. Geocities originated in the 1990’s as a service that allowed members to create and host free web pages. It was a huge success—after going […]
As a person who has never depended on a Windows machine, or even used one outside of a school computer lab, I lack some of the fundamental experiences that define the children of my generation. I have never had a computer virus. If my computer crashes, it is a 20 second ordeal, after which I […]
I very much enjoyed [“Finding my religion: A Spiritual and Intellectual Journey” (Oct. 9, 2009) by Daniel Ortner]. Too often I find the residents of Massachusetts are unwilling to accept opposing ideas. This is a very interesting idea when Massachusetts considers itself to be a very open and accepting. To truly be an open people […]
‘Tis the season for papers and, at Brandeis, ’tis also the season for complaining about grades. This school introduced me to the notion that when an instructor puts a grade other than “A” on a student’s work, he has not actually assigned a grade. Instead, the instructor has knocked a chip off the student’s shoulder […]
A convicted felon with a history of mental instability walks into a gun show. He goes up to an assault weapons vendor, and buys two automatics, one semi-automatic, and a couple of handguns. Do you really want to hear what happens next? If not, then you’re like the many Americans who want the gun show […]
J Street is a recently formed lobby that wants to “change the direction of American policy in the Middle East,” with their motto being “pro-peace, pro-Israel.” Alan Solomont, one of the founders of J Street, believes that the United States government has only “…heard the voices of neocons, and right-of-center Jewish leaders and Christian evangelicals, […]
With all the commotion surrounding the decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize, I can only imagine how that decision was made… At a meeting of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway: The portrait of Alfred Nobel occupied a prominent position high on the wall of the Norwegian Nobel Committee room. […]
