WOW

That’s the word that came into my head reading this story. The Kifaya movement is no chimera. It’s real. And it’s close to miraculous.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Happily, most of the Andamans’ Negritos seem to have survived December’s tsunami. The fate of one tribe, the Sentinelese, remains uncertain, but an Indian coast guard helicopter sent to check up on them came under bow and arrow attack, which is heartening.” – Armand Marie Leroi, New York Times. Well, it made me smile. And this is as good a time as any to say how much much better the NYT’s op-ed page has become under David Shipley. Yes, I’m biased. David is an old friend and worked with me at The New Republic. But he has always had a commitment to genuine intellectual diversity, and the way in which the NYT has refused to kowtow to p.c. pressure to curtail open and free debate on such touchy matters as race and gender is clearly his achievement. This matters. Race and gender are real. How real they are is an open question. But we cannot find the answer if we will not allow the question.