How Brexit Has Benefited Israel
The lesson from the Hizballah decision.
February 27, 2019
On the Subject of Judaism, Lionel Trilling Protested a Bit Too Much
Did his deracinated outlook subvert his own literary career?
The great American Jewish literary critic and Columbia professor Lionel Trilling long aspired not just to write about fiction, but to produce it. In 1947, he published his only completed novel, The Middle of the Journey, about a group of American middle-class socialists in the 1930s. Reviewing a recently published collection of Trilling’s letters, Joseph Epstein uses one particular review of the novel to shed light on Trilling’s blind spot regarding the Jews :
February 27, 2019
Palestinian Leaders Won’t Accept a Peace Plan from the Trump Administration, Whatever Its Particulars
“The slap of the century.”
Why Israel Should Be Concerned by Boycott Legislation in Chile and Ireland
The immediate economic effects are insignificant, but the long-term implications are deeply disturbing.
The Strange Story of Holocaust Money
And the Nazis’ obsessive concern with its aesthetics.
On the Subject of Judaism, Lionel Trilling Protested a Bit Too Much
Did his deracinated outlook subvert his own literary career?