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November 4, 2024
In October, Trump announced he would hold a rally on the final Saturday of his campaign in Salem, Virginia. The decision to come to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians made no strategic sense: if Trump comes even close to winning the state the election will have been a rout, and the...
Read MoreOctober 31, 2024
In order to attend press screenings at the New York Film Festival, you have to scan in your ID badge. These badges are color-coded, with orange and red representing high value members of the industry and press who always get in; the rest of us greens have to line up and hope the Walter Reade...
Read MoreOctober 30, 2024
I will enter a polling station in Washington, D.C., in several days and vote for the first time. The thought of filling in a ballot may be mundane for millions of Americans who have done it (or forgotten or merely not bothered to do it) routinely every two or four years for all of their...
Read MoreOctober 25, 2024
The lives of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza was reduced to hell at the moment Hamas launched their attack on the morning of Oct 7th, 2023. At sunrise that day, as news of Hamas’ attack on Israel spread across Gaza, the people knew what was coming. People in Gaza started preparing themselves for the horrors...
Read MoreOctober 22, 2024
A friend of mine once asked me why I get so worked up about Jewish Currents, a left-wing American magazine known for airing anti-Zionist views. Of all the actors large and small that help shape the narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, why care about a magazine based in Long Island with a few thousand subscribers? ...
Read MoreOctober 15, 2024
I had the dream again — in it, dad was still alive and was hiding somewhere in the house. Usually in the attic by the box fan — sitting under a light bulb, silent and watchful and bald, like some wise nesting bird. Other times, he was wedged up behind the top shelves of my...
Read MoreOctober 8, 2024
One of the strangest things about modern American reality — marked as it is by a multitude of threatening cataclysms (environmental, nuclear, fascist) that seem to loom closer all the time — is that it is funny. Who can deny that the geriatric TV showman, who looks like a cartoon character, pumping his fists and...
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2024
Child refugees and the children of refugees experience a unique longing for a place they never knew. But they also long for a place that does not exist. Our parents in exile create an elaborate fantasy of what their homeland could have been and make it real with the strength of their desires. Because when...
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2024
David Foster Wallace said that life as a famous writer is comparable to working as a TV weatherman in a mid-sized city. You’re only recognized when you are “in the right place at the right time.” Despite the relative obscurity of even successful writers, especially those most regarded for literary fiction, Wallace continues to generate...
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2024
“[T]he ‘kids’, as the phrase goes, ‘got to me.'” Thus concluded Irving Howe’s memoir A Margin of Hope. The book, which appeared in 1982, includes reflections on his conflicts with the New Left during the 60s. All through that decade Howe upheld the banner of democratic socialism, a socialism deeply informed by liberal values, against...
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