What Happens If the Cease-Fire Holds, and If It Doesn’t
Assessing a war that might not be over.
April 10, 2026
Lindy West, Polyamory, and a Bad Husband’s Powerful Misdirection of “Free Palestine!”
How can you be mad at me when you could be mad at Jews?
A month ago, a writer named Lindy West—who had been somewhat of a sensation as a blogger, journalist, and humorist in the 2010s—released a much-reviewed and much-discussed memoir titled Adult Braces. Phoebe Maltz Bovy explains the main points of the controversy the book has generated, before getting to the way the Jews got dragged into it:
April 10, 2026
How Israel and the U.S. Dismantled Iran’s Apparatus of Oppression
Small-town police outposts matter.
Why the War on Iran Was Legal
From American and international perspectives.
Lindy West, Polyamory, and a Bad Husband’s Powerful Misdirection of “Free Palestine!”
How can you be mad at me when you could be mad at Jews?
The Medieval Rabbi Who Tried to Read Scripture without Tradition
Rabbi Samuel ben Meir of Troyes.