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Satrapi on the Arbiters of Moral Purity in the Ayatollah’s Iran

Marjane Satrapi’s excellent film “Persepolis,” the true story of a girl’s coming of age in 1970’s and 1980’s Iran, examines the misogyny and general brutality of the 1979 Iranian revolution and Khomeini’s regime. Originally a cartoon book, like Art Speigelman’s Maus series, the film, also a cartoon, effectively employs the form to understate and highlight …

Bollinger: No Badass, but not Bad as, He Might Have Been

It’s never wise to debate a nut job, especially a vicious one. The very act of debate implies there is something to be discussed, some shred of basis to the attacker’s position which, if in fact there is none, gives that unreasonable and possibly evil party more standing than he or she deserves. Thus in …

Ahmadinejad, Man of Mystery?

According to an interview on FOX News, Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, who is hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tomorrow, says he would have hosted Hitler, too. This man seems to be of the school of thought that the best defense against the world’s monsters is to listen, but in reality folks …

Ahmadinejad: Defender of Gay Rights?

On Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with students and faculty at Columbia University. Pundits, students, and New Yorkers of all stripes are in an uproar that Ahmadinejad is being given a platform. At first, I was of the mindset that his speaking would have little …

The Truth About Iraq: We Say Karate, Iran Says Crowbar

Over a year and a half ago, Mithal al-Alusi, a courageous Iraqi politician about whom I have written for The Wall Street Journal, who has lost more than his life in the struggle to build a democratic Iraq, told me that Iran had infiltrated the Iraqi political process.

Last week in …