The Cease-Fire in the Persian Gulf Was Bound to Fail
A double misunderstanding.
July 13, 2026
A Memoir of a Vanishing Southern Jewish Elite
Returning.
Born in New Orleans to a Jewish family deeply rooted in the American south, Nicholas Lemann details his own ancestors’ story, the world of the self-consciously Jewish but not especially observant elite in which he was raised, and his late-in-life embrace of Judaism in his new book Returning. He discusses the book and his own experiences in conversation with John Podhoretz. (Video, 51 minutes)
July 13, 2026
In Canada, a Human-Rights Museum Suggests Israel Is the Culmination of the World’s Evils
Nakba: Past and Present.
A 1912 French Novella’s Exploration of Anti-Semitic Violence
“Lévy.”
The Hounding of Jewish Writers, and Its Defenders
The PEN Club’s free-speech problem.
A Memoir of a Vanishing Southern Jewish Elite
Returning.