By Offering the Palestinians Something for Nothing, the Trump Administration Starts Off on the Wrong Foot
More sticks, not more carrots, are what’s needed.
March 22, 2017
A New Play Reveals the Thread Connecting Fascism, Moral Relativism, and Post-Modern Intellectual Decadence
Paul de Man, the man.
Jonathan Leaf’s Deconstruction centers on the story of Paul de Man, a native of Antwerp who came to America after World War II, told everyone he met that he had served in the Belgian resistance, launched himself on a dazzling academic career as a literary theorist—eventually landing a professorship at Yale—and became a leading figure in the “deconstructionist” approach to literature. It focuses on de Man’s rumored romance with the novelist Mary McCarthy, who had given him his entrée into academic and literary circles, and his relationship with her friend Hannah Arendt, who was among the first to doubt his story about his wartime activities. In an appreciative review, Thomas McArdle writes:
March 22, 2017
America’s Road Ahead in Syria
The U.S. is fighting the wrong war in the Middle East.
The Six-Day War and the West German Left’s Turn to Anti-Semitism
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, anti-Zionism never strayed far from hatred of Jews.
Norman Podhoretz’s Once-Controversial Memoir, 50 Years On
Making It.
A New Play Reveals the Thread Connecting Fascism, Moral Relativism, and Post-Modern Intellectual Decadence
Paul de Man, the man.