What Iran is Learning from Russia’s Missile Strategy
The Islamic Republic is watching closely.
May 25, 2022
The Strange Correspondence between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot—and Their Even Stranger Dinner
Groucho called the anti-Semitic expatriate a “British poet from St. Louis.”
In 1961, a letter with a Royal Mail postmark arrived at Julius “Groucho” Marx’s modernist California estate. It was a fan note of sorts from the Nobel Prize-winning, notoriously anti-Semitic poet T.S. Eliot, requesting a photo of the unabashedly Jewish comedian. Marx obliged, and Eliot hung the picture in his London townhouse. Thus began an unexpected and testy exchange between the two brilliant and strikingly different men. Ed Simon recounts their relationship and the ways in which both Eliot’s modernist poetry and Marx’s Jewish humor responded to a growing sense of displacement in the 20th century.
May 25, 2022
How Should Christians Define Anti-Semitism?
Major evangelical groups disagree over the IHRA’s working definition.
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The Strange Correspondence between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot—and Their Even Stranger Dinner
Groucho called the anti-Semitic expatriate a “British poet from St. Louis.”
The Rediscovered Jews of Xueta Island
A new documentary sheds light on an ancient Jewish community in the Mediterranean.