Chic literary disgust

A friend sent me this translation of an interview with Nicole Krauss in the Tel Aviv daily Yediot Ahronot : “American Jewish writer Nicole ...

Why Judith Butler hates Israel

As someone who is “ unambiguously hostile ” to the enemies of Israel, I was aggravated but not particularly surprised by Judith Butler’s ess...

The bias of self-selection

The “leftist domination of college faculties,” sighs David French of the Alliance Defense Fund in a post at National Review Online , is “by...

Jabotinsky’s “Samson”

Now that Israeli Apartheid Week has come and gone, and now that the Jews have answered with the holiday of Purim , perhaps there is time to ...

Apartheid Week

The seventh annual “ Israeli Apartheid Week ” is being held on university campuses across the United States this week to renew the call for ...

Wharton and the tragic sense

Although it may be wide of the target, Kevin Neilson’s suggestion that there is some “family resemblance” between Edith Wharton and Sigmund...

Wharton and dreams

Over at Interpolations , Kevin Neilson suggests that Edith Wharton “shares a family resemblance with Freud.” Granted, my impressions of Fre...

Supersessionism returns

With Christians under attack in the Muslim world—in Ethiopia , in Pakistan , in Egypt —now is hardly the time to start a culture war with th...