November 22, 2024
To understand bigotry, study the bigot not its victim. The exercise is a repudiation of the poison but it is also rational: bigotry is fostered, nurtured, and manifested by all manner of factors which affix to a victim – usually (but not always) a vulnerable one – but which have little to do with them....
Read MoreNovember 20, 2024
Empathy with the victor benefits the rulers. ...
Read MoreNovember 19, 2024
When the anti-republican Action Française group wanted to incite a revolution against democracy in Paris in 1934, they chose to perform a “freely” translated version of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s 1608 play about a tragic Roman tyrant. Coriolanus has plenty of useful material for the demotically agitating translator. Audience riots ensued. Both the socialists and the fascists...
Read MoreNovember 13, 2024
After reading a large paragraph in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s short introduction to Sense and Nonsense, I took a hampered but hopeful breath and eyed the generous white space of the Northwestern University Press book. He wrote that in a genuine work of art something has been gained for the human race and “the work of art transmits an...
Read MoreNovember 13, 2024
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and X. Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access to asylum, dating back to the Trump administration and continuing through that of Biden, United States-bound refugees from all...
Read MoreNovember 7, 2024
WITH Hamze Awawde; Zack Beauchamp; Francesca Dannunzio; Shay Khatiri; Jessica Pishko; Matthew Sitman; A.E. Stallings; Rafia Zakaria An American Wakes Up in Athens, Greece After the 2024 Elections A.E. Stallings’ book Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon will be published in 2025....
Read MoreNovember 5, 2024
It’s almost over. This week, hundreds of millions of citizens are off to the polls to play their part in the great American exploding gender reveal party. It’s the most consequential election in living memory. Again. and the whole world is watching through its fingers. Of course we are. No other nation with equivalent international hit...
Read MoreNovember 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? ...
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