Israel Is Winning in Gaza, and in the Middle East
Jerusalem’s diplomatic standing is better than ever.
May 19, 2025
A Screenwriter from Hollywood’s Golden Age Explains How to Fight Anti-Semitism with Jewish Pride
Ben Hecht’s guide for the bedevilled.
What then should be done about this rising tide of anti-Semitism? This was the question that led the journalist, dramatist, and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht—known for his contributions to such films as His Girl Friday, Gone with the Wind, and the original 1932 Scarface—to write A Guide for the Bedevilled in 1943. Few American Jews of prominence at the time devoted nearly so much energy as Hecht to the plight of their coreligionists in Europe, nor to the cause of establishing a Jewish state. Jesse Tisch probes this troubling, and strikingly relevant, work:
May 19, 2025
Why American Middle East Policy Needs Human Rights to Succeed
Our enemies care about our reputation as defenders of freedom. We should care too.
Those Who Oversaw the Universities’ Abandonment of Liberal Education Are Now Its Champions
Campus illiberalism breeds anti-Semitism.
A Screenwriter from Hollywood’s Golden Age Explains How to Fight Anti-Semitism with Jewish Pride
Ben Hecht’s guide for the bedevilled.
Jews’ Three-Millennium Struggle with Pandemics
From Samuel to COVID-19.