How Hostility to Israel Brought about the Ban on Cluster Munitions
A tale of humanitarian hypocrisy.
July 12, 2023
Norman Mailer Wanted to Write the Great American Novel. And a Regular Column on Hasidism in “Commentary”
“There are too many good Jewish writers around.”
The novelist, journalist, and playwright Norman Mailer wrote more than twenty books, won two Pulitzer Prizes, married six times, and may have been as famous for his pugnacious interviews as for his written works. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush and Crown Heights, Mailer had a fairly traditional, and not particularly unusual, Jewish childhood. Jesse Tisch, reviewing a recent biography, explores Mailer’s complicated and often contradictory attitudes toward his people and religion:
July 12, 2023
Following the Money to an Ill-Conceived U.S. Agreement with Iran
The deal that shall not be named.
The Shaky Evidence behind the Israeli Spyware Scandal
BDS by another name.
Norman Mailer Wanted to Write the Great American Novel. And a Regular Column on Hasidism in “Commentary”
“There are too many good Jewish writers around.”
German Construction Workers Discover the Remains of a Destroyed Synagogue
Two columns and a broken tablet.