With Its Leadership Decimated and Its Finances Cut Off, Hamas Is in Crisis
But if it isn’t defeated now, the countdown to the next war will have already begun.
May 28, 2025
James Joyce’s Jewish Biographer
Richard Ellman and the WASP inner sanctum.
The hero of James Joyce’s most famous book, Ulysees, was of Jewish ancestry, and the role of Jews in the Irish novelist’s work has been much discussed, including in Mosaic. After the fictional Leopold Bloom, the Jew most associated with Joyce might be his biographer, Richard Ellman. Reviewing a new biography of this biographer by Zachary Leader—himself known for his biographies of Saul Bellow and other literary figures—A. R. Hoffman writes:
May 28, 2025
How the UK Channels Millions of Pounds to Hamas
Even after weighing the “reputational risks.”
Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Is Punished for Defending His Government
Breaking the rules by telling the truth.
American Civil Religion in a Time of Religious Decline
Memorial Day reflections.
James Joyce’s Jewish Biographer
Richard Ellman and the WASP inner sanctum.