Analysis
Thursday, December 22nd 2022 / Wednesday, December 21st 2022
Roger Kimball The Spectator, Dec. 20, 2022 “… there was never going to be a ground zero. The point was not to “achieve closure.” It certainly wasn’t to uncover the truth.” As I have said before, I hope that the new Congress, which begins its session in just a couple of weeks, will […]
Tom Basile Washington Times, Dec. 16, 2022 “The effectiveness and the consequences of lockdowns, masks, treatments and vaccines were all ripe for a robust debate, especially as we all learned from our collective experience.” The Twitter Files have thus far been truly illuminating. They’ve provided vindication for those who were vilified for even suggesting […]
Tuesday, December 20th 2022 / Tuesday, December 20th 2022
Dean Robinson National Review, Dec. 3, 2022 “… my colleagues and I are increasingly concerned that our frank guidance could be interpreted as microaggressions or manifestations of our “oppression” and “privilege.” Out of self-preservation, we are thus likely to limit the instruction and feedback we give future physicians, depriving them (and their future patients) of […]
Tuesday, December 20th 2022
Francis Menton Manhattan Contrarian, Dec. 16, 2022 “Claudine Gay allowed Michael Smith to get away scot-free in the Harvard-Epstein ties investigation — she came in and nicely whitewashed it all away. Claudine Gay has Epstein coverup stink on her, and Michael Smith has major Epstein stink on him.” Yesterday I got two emails from […]
Russell Jacoby Tablet, Dec. 19, 2022 “The leftists who would have vanished as assistant professors in conferences on narratology and gender fluidity or disappeared as law professors with unreadable essays on misogynist hegemony and intersectionality have been pushed out into the larger culture.” In 1987 I published The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age […]
Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe Tablet, Nov. 4, 2022 “Building bridges, while perhaps a laudable mission for humanitarian organizations, is not always compatible with the pursuit of scholarly truth.” Few trends in academia are more depressing than the continued domination of Middle Eastern studies departments by postcolonial professors whose shtick involves recycling cliched attacks on […]
Monday, December 19th 2022
Curt Leviant Tablet, Dec. 16, 2020 “What Jew didn’t know his family name? What Jew can’t read from the siddur. What Jew has the gruff look of a goy?” Early one morning, one snowless winter’s day, end November, just before Hanukkah, a solidly built man—he seemed to be in his mid-30s—appeared in […]
Don Feder Washington Times, Dec. 10, 2022 “The two sides seem remarkably similar to those in the Hanukkah story. In the culture war, one side believes in an evolving moral code shaped by convenience and popular opinion. The other subscribes to a code that’s both universal and eternal.” Hanukkah may be the most […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Nov. 30, 2021 “Sacks, a chief rabbi who was knighted and awarded a peerage by the British Crown, found this stanza embarrassing. His solution was not very different from Ma’oz Tsur’s: to publish and conceal simultaneously.” How many stanzas of the candle-lighting song Ma’oz Tsur Y’shu’ati are you familiar with? If you’re like […]
Prof. Eyal Regev The Torah.com, Dec. 10, 2017 “Although almost half of the book describes the military conflicts between the Judah’s troops and the Seleucids, its emphasis is on the religious piety of Judah and his followers.” Chanukah has a special history. Early Jewish sources from the second century B.C.E. – 1 Maccabees, […]
Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Saul Austerlitz PBS, Dec. 13, 2022 “Bellow was a cultural conservative at heart, decrying what he saw as the excesses of a society spiraling out of control, but his critique is laced with deep sympathy for the rejects and failures of American life.” It is only too easy to see Saul Bellow as one […]
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Matti Friedman Tablet, May 4, 2022 “So “Lover Lover Lover” is a war song. It’s not clear what “lover” he’s referring to in the chorus, which simply intones that word seven times and implores, “come back to me.” But if we understand the song as a kind of prayer, maybe the word appears […]
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