Bashar al-Assad Is Using Chemical Weapons Again. Will the U.S. Avert Its Gaze?
Last year’s airstrike worked, but only for a time.
February 8, 2018
Céline’s Rehabilitation, from Nazi Collaborator to Distinguished Novelist
And what to do with great artists who used their pens for evil purposes.
Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, writing under the pen name Céline, published his novel Journey to the End of the Night in 1932; it was praised by his contemporaries as a work of genius, and still retains its place as a seminal work of French modernism. A few years later, he began expressing his admiration for Hitler and hope for a Franco-German alliance, writing a series of viciously anti-Semitic pamphlets. In Céline’s eyes, the fall of France in 1940 was a proud moment. Reviewing a recent, meticulous study of the novelist’s views on Jews and race, Frederic Raphael explores how he returned to polite society after the war:
February 8, 2018
Hamas Is Rebuilding Its West Bank Infrastructure
The carefully planned murder of Raziel Shevach was the work of skilled terrorists.
Why Looney Anti-Semites Remain Respectable
Lawrence Wilkerson thinks the Jews are manipulating the country into war with Iran.
Céline’s Rehabilitation, from Nazi Collaborator to Distinguished Novelist
And what to do with great artists who used their pens for evil purposes.
A Czech Synagogue Tries to Reconstruct the Library of Its Great 17th-Century Rabbi
Shabbetai ha-Kohen’s books.