Features June 2023
Emperor of chaos
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On Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller.
Topic: “Judaism”
Letter from the Golan May 2023
Higher authority
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On security in the Golan, Israeli politics & settler culture.
Books April 2021
Philip Roth’s plot against himself
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Features November 2020
Taking leave of the socialism of fools
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On the echoes of fascism in the critics of Zionism.
Features March 2020
Reflections on anti-Semitism
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On the suppression of those labeled “too clever by half.”
Oct 28, 2019
Written by the losers
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On Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman.
Jul 27, 2018
Week in review
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On Solzhenitsyn’s Vermont, Judd’s furniture, forgotten folk music from Ukraine & more.
Books March 2018
Jewish for the jokes
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Notebook November 2017
Israel’s founding fictions
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On Israel’s three national literatures.
Nov 22, 2016
The Critic’s Notebook
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A poetic picture of the Mississippi, and more from the world of culture.