Year
In Review - 2002
Selected news and commentary
Columnists of the Year
Sites of the Year
Some of the best and most interesting sites of the year.
The New York Times
MEMRI
National Review
Best of the Web Today
InstaPundit
Little Green Footballs
"Fighting to Live as the Towers Died"
(Jim Dwyer et al., The New York Times, 2002/05/26)
The New York Times - NYT is rightly criticized almost daily because of its biased and editorialized reporting. "But it's worth pausing for a second to appreciate the New York Times for what it is: a stunning cultural achievement," notes Jonathan V. Last. "Almost anything of note from anywhere appears in the Times - it's the paper-of-record for Western civilization. From Circuits to Science Times to the Sunday Magazine, the New York Times is shockingly comprehensive and incredibly well-written. It's no exaggeration to say that the New York Times we pick up every morning is an accomplishment on par with the Great Library of Alexandria." And "102 Minutes - Inside the Twin Towers" is an outstanding case in point, centered on a haunting chronicle of the final 102 minutes inside the buildings, with attached transcripts of 157 accounts as well as interactive guides. Definitely the article of the year. (Note: Last's comment is from a Weekly Standard newsletter, cited here (Josh Chafetz, OxBlog, 2002/12/05))
MEMRI - Simply indispensible for anyone interested in the currents of the Arab world. The occasional example of moral clarity is a rare oasis in an endless desert of hatefilled anti-Semitic and anti-American sentiments. It's almost as if the myth of the Jewish world-conspiracy as presented in the infamous "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is taken for granted. Translated columns, sermons and transcripts as well as cartoons, videos and in-depth studies.
National Review - Victor Davis Hanson. Enough said. But National Review is a must even if you count him out, with interesting articles posted almost daily, regular contributions from Tom Gross, David Pryce-Jones and Michael Ledeen, for example, as well as occasional nuggets found on The Corner.
Best of the Web Today - No obscure little site is obscure enough for the omniscient James Taranto, who seemingly sifts the complete web daily for material. His basic stance is perhaps best summed up in the recurrent line "Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994," which ends all posts about the Palestinian leader. And it is always perfectly fitting.
InstaPundit - The Undisputed King of the Blogosphere. Hyperupdated weblog with a neverending current of interesting links and intelligent commentary. It's also the best guide to other blogs out there, keeping continual track on all interesting posts in the currently known Blogosphere.
Little Green Footballs - Since 9/11 Charles Johnson's weblog has evolved to the best warblog on the net and also to a veritable anti-idiotarian community, which for example revealed that an article in Asia Times was a hoax in less than 90 minutes. Chronicling not only Islamofascism in general, but also the dramatic history of what's happening on Arafat's chaotic desk.
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Articles
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"Losing the Enlightenment" (Victor Davis Hanson, OpinionJournal, 2006/11/29)
"Allah’s England?" (Daniel Johnson, Commentary. November 2006)
"'Sex in the Park': The latest doings of the Danish imams" (Henrik Bering, The Weekly Standard, 2006/11/18)
"Narcissism on Stilts" (Harold Evans, New York Sun, 2006/11/16)
"Terrorists are recruiting in our schools, says MI5 boss" (Philip Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/11/10)
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"The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt" (Oriana Fallaci, The Wall Street Journal, 2003/03/13)
"How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost" (Oriana Fallaci, The American Enterprise, from the January/February 2003 issue)
"On Jew-hatred in Europe" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2002/04/13)
"Anger and Pride" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2001/12/19)
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