Don’t Expect a Saudi Ambassador to Jerusalem Any Time Soon
Nonetheless, there are signs of hope.
November 27, 2017
Hedy Lamarr: The Jewish Actress Whose Technical Wizardry Made Wi-Fi Possible
Frequency switching.
The subject of a recent documentary, the Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr was one of cinema’s first female sex symbols; her best known Hollywood role was that of the titular temptress in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. But her greatest contribution might well have been in engineering, as co-inventor of a technique for communicating across radio frequencies. Lamarr kept her Jewish origins a secret for most of her career—even her children were surprised to learn of it. In his review of the documentary, J. Hoberman writes:
November 27, 2017
Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, and the Perversity of Brilliance
Norman Podhoretz and the question of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust.
For the First Time, the State Department Holds the PA Accountable
What Rex Tillerson’s demand that the PLO close its Washington office really means.
The U.S. Has Won Its First Victory over Islamic State. What’s Next?
What we’ve gotten right, and what we’ve gotten wrong.
Hedy Lamarr: The Jewish Actress Whose Technical Wizardry Made Wi-Fi Possible
Frequency switching.