The Disgrace of the BBC
August 25, 2003 · Features, Josh Chafetz, Magazine
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Legal Scholar and Political Commentator
Josh Chafetz
6 articles 2002–2003
Josh Chafetz is a legal scholar and professor of law who has written on constitutional law and legislative power. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2002 and 2003, covering media criticism, British politics, and political commentary. He is also known as an early prominent blogger and the author of works on congressional authority.
What's Gone Right
July 7, 2003 · Josh Chafetz, Magazine
NOT EVEN the most determined Pollyanna would claim that the reconstruction of Iraq has gone smoothly. Although many early reports of trouble were exaggerated (see Baghdad Museum, looting of), instances of civil unrest continue, including protests and even a few riots. Neither weapons of mass…
Body Count
April 16, 2003 · Josh Chafetz, Blog
IT'S ALMOST AS IF some people want Iraqi civilians to die. So eager are they to score political points that you can almost see them licking their chops as they desperately seek out any reports--however sketchy--of Iraqi casualties. For their political agenda, the only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi.…
The (Hon.) Shills
January 13, 2003 · Features, Josh Chafetz, Magazine
IN A TIME OF INTERNATIONAL STRIFE, when Americans are struggling to understand an unfamiliar part of the globe, one wishes we could call on a cadre of experts who had lived in the region and were experienced in promoting American values and interests. One would think that former U.S. ambassadors to…
The Immutable Laws of Maureen Dowd
October 14, 2002 · Features, Josh Chafetz, Magazine
MAUREEN DOWD'S New York Times columns used to be fun. Whether you agreed with her or not, they were witty and incisive. Sometimes they were even insightful. But recently, many readers are asking the same question as a letter writer to the Denver Post: "What has happened to Maureen Dowd lately? . .…
Looking Backward
February 18, 2002 · Josh Chafetz, Magazine, Books and Arts
The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan Dunne, 320 pp., $25.95 Pat Buchanan's thesis in "The Death of the West" is simple enough: The "cultural revolution" that swept across the West in the 1960s led to…