Author Archive | David Bernstein

An interesting debate on the latter subject is ongoing at the Mirror of Justice blog.

Brad Delong writes: I use the word “Likudnik” routinely to refer to those in American who support Likud, and who believe that the national security of the United States is advanced by feeding Likud’s annexationist fantasies. I’m not an anti-semite. And I don’t like being called one: The Volokh Conspiracy – : …the phrase “Likudnik” […]

I heard NPR’s Nina Totenberg report on Raich v. Ashcroft this evening. She ended her segment by suggesting that “by the end of the argument, it wasn’t clear that Barnett had even one vote for his position,” or words to that effect. Solum’s transcript of the argument suggests otherwise, and I think that Randy did […]

I’m pleased with the result of the Solomon Amendment case, allowing private universities to discriminate against military recruites. As those of you who are familiar with You Can’t Say That! would guess, I think that the First Amendment right of expressive association protects private universities’ ability to defy federal antidiscrimination laws when those laws interfere […]

I’ve got a few questions for readers. (1) Fruit-in-the-middle yogurt: My wife likes yogurt with fruit in the middle (as opposed to at the bottom and drenched in syrup, or blended in), which is easily available in, for example, her native Israel, but is very difficult to find in the U.S. The only brand I’ve […]

Cole: I received a very weird phone call from a prominent Jewish-American investigative journalist the other night. He kept muttering about bias against Sharon and how the Israeli security wall is no different from the wall near the Rio Grande (which isn’t true: did the US annex Mexican land to build that?) I guess Juan’s […]

Kevin Drum writes: ANTI-SEMITISM….This is getting tiresome. It has long been a staple on the right that most criticism of Israel is really just thinly veiled anti-Semitism. Then after 9/11 we began hearing that criticism of neocons was just thinly veiled anti-Semitism. Now David Bernstein comes along to tell us that use of the term […]

Folks on the Left have been throwing around the term “Likudnik” to refer to any non-left-wing Jew who differs with them on foreign policy [UPDATE: Case in point], even when the relevant issue has nothing directly to do with Israel, Iraq being exhibit A (to the extent the insinuation is that these Jews supported the […]

For the professors in the VC audience, I highly recommend the Tax Guide for College Teachers. Over the years, this book, updated annually, has literally saved me thousands of dollars in taxes (mostly because I discovered throug h it that certain types of fellowship income are not subject to Social Security and Medicare tax). You […]

My colleague Peter Berkowitz, who witnessed the events in question first-hand, has the scoop.

Interesting article in the L.A. Times about the Friends sexual harassment case, which is based on a claim that an assistant to the staff writers was subjected to a “hostile environment” because of the writers’ sexually oriented banter. An underappreciated aspect of hostile environment law is the way it undermines the privacy interests of the […]

Cathy Young debunks the “Bush Voters are Stupid” Meme in the Boston Globe.

Interesting post on the Emmett Till case over at the History News Network.

Only a few more hours left to bid on a Justice O’Connor bobblehead on Ebay; my wife and I are sending the proceeds to the Israeli Red Magen David Adom, the brave folks who are first on the scene after terrorist attacks. UPDATE: Auction closed at $362.88.

I’ve run into a bunch of acquaintances and VC readers lately, many of whom have asked me, remembering previous posts on the subject, whether my wife and I have bought a house yet. The answer is no. We made one offer in May on a four-bedroom house a mile from the Ballston metro with a […]