Jeffrey Goldberg is back from Cuba, where he was summoned by Fidel Castro after the former Cuban president read Goldberg’s recent article on the likelihood of an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear program. Goldberg promises that his Havana adventure will be the subject of a forthcoming story, but in the meantime, he’s blogging about it, the highlight of which appears to be a dolphin show he watched alongside Fidel himself and the daughter of Che Guevara, whom we are told loved animals. And then there’s the dog-and-pony show, which was conducted solely for the benefit of The Atlantic’s national correspondent.

I have known Jeffrey Goldberg for several years and greatly admire his work. His lively and insightful reporting from and on the Middle East is distinguished, among other reasons, for a moral lucidity that is very rare in journalistic and academic Middle East circles: Unlike many other regional experts, Jeff never equivocates on fundamental issues – e.g., regimes that torture, rape and massacre their own people are bad, and murdering Israelis is not resistance but murder. It is disconcerting then to see him struggling for that same clarity when it comes to an authoritarian government outside of the Middle East, like that of the Castro brothers.