In Jewish World Review, Jonathan Tobin looks at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book on the Middle East, The Message, and the (mostly) laudatory news coverage it has received. While he’s hailed as a literary genius, Coates’ claim that the experiences of Palestinians are analogous to that of blacks in Jim Crow-era America is wildly misinformed and inaccurate, Tobin explains.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.