Tuesday, February 10




Caution should be exercised when using analogies in political debates

The recent uproar over a class e-mail by Professor William I. Robinson of the University of California Santa Barbara, which drew an analogy between the Holocaust and the Israeli blockade and recent war in Gaza, "Israel's Warsaw... (and) a slow-motion process of genocide," is not a new one among a long list of "˜martyred' Jewish academics. Professor Robinson, who is Jewish, used juxtaposed images of children behind barbed wire in Gaza and Poland to illustrate his argument for the analogy and drew the knee-jerk denunciation of being anti-Semitic by hawkish observers. Read more...


Letters to the Editor

Carla Gharibian's column on sex and abstinence ("Get the info before having sex," May 19) raised a few issues for me. I am a virgin who will be getting married this summer after graduation, and I am very much looking forward to sharing wild and passionate, albeit awkward honeymoon sex with my husband, who will also be a virgin. Read more...