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The famed “Jewish vote”
Peter Bergson, born Hillel Kook Roger Simon, Pajamas Media CEO, interviewed members of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Los Angeles, and posted a short video of his sampling...
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The Woman Question in Saul Bellow’s Herzog
Saul Bellow It is easy to see why Saul Bellow, the son of Jewish Russian émigrés who were as declassed as many French aristocrats during the French Revolution, would be attracted to Herman Melville’s...
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The State of the Union Stinks
Goebbels' favorite object Other writers have impressively discussed the flaws in the State of the Union speech last night. But neither Bryan Preston nor Barry Rubin has focused on the emotional appeals...
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Moral atheists?
Blake's Ancient of Days, 1794 [This blog is dedicated to my daughter Jenny, who called my attention to the missing father in the Whitney Houston death coverage. See...
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Eros and the problem of solidarity
Rothschild and the money power This is for Labor Day, September 3, 2012. I am trying to understand why a political party with such obvious internal conflicts of interest as the Democratic Party, is...
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Index to blogs on populist demagoguery
Lyonel Feininger Emeute One way to look at the New Left ascendancy in the media and throughout educational institutions is to note that while separatist ethnic or women’s studies created mindsets of...
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Thought Crimes
During the High Holy Days, Jews are supposed to engage in strenuous self-examination. Even as a secular Jew, the solemnity and moral obligation of this time impels me to look inside and make...
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“Bibi” and the human nature debate
CNT poster 1937 Recent historians are acknowledging that the transition from pre-capitalist societies to capitalist societies is prolonged, tempestuous, and violent. At the bottom of all the fights...
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The “Other”
Graham Nash photoassemblage This blog is about the almost universal use of the term “the Other” to designate unwarranted prejudice in the perpetrator of [ThoughtCrimes]. Presumably, the bigot views his...
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“Capitalism” is on the line
As I watched Mitt Romney’s most recent stump speeches, noting his emphasis on bipartisanship, my heart sank, for the current polarization is not about matters that are easily conciliated through...
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Nirenberg’s mischievous ANTI-JUDAISM
David Nirenberg [Abstract: Norton has published a wandering, lengthy, unreadable book whose unintended consequence may be the weakening of the current coalition between Jews and their (conservative)...
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Pretend you are a Nazi
From Julius Streicher’s Der Sturmer http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/nyregion/albany-teacher-gives-pro-nazi-writing-assignment.html?smid=fb-share...
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The television season goes Dark
I understand that television is not considered to be other than escapist entertainment, and not a business with pretensions to artiness or literariness, but there are many critics who treat its more...
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Minding antisemitism
Today on Fox News Sunday (7-21-13), Chris Wallace, one of the “moderate” voices of the Fox News Channel, noted that just deceased Helen Thomas, who famously exclaimed that “the Jews should get the hell...
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The nefarious “cultural Marxists”
There is a Facebook page “Smash Cultural Marxism.” One must wonder why a handful of German refugees, some with Jewish ancestry, are getting blamed for the sharp turn toward statism in the Democratic...
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Urwand’s COLLABORATION: HOLLYWOOD’S PACT WITH HITLER
This is an impression of Harvard Junior Fellow Ben Urwand’s new book, to be released in October. I was initially appalled when I saw a puff-piece in TABLET. (See...
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Authenticity and the “bottled-up”
Free thought by Berkozturk As visitors to this website are aware, I am a scholar devoted to the propagation of “free thought,” whether those thoughts are directed to the search for truth, or to the...
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Leo Steinberg and the dilemma of the Jewish intellectual
Leo Steinberg Leo Steinberg, the famous and controversial art historian who died only recently, was the most cultured and brilliant of all my New York friends after my divorce in 1971. I sought him out...
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Is America a Christian state?
Haman A relative of mine surprised me by observing that since the USA is fundamentally a Christian state, so why should not Israel be a Jewish state? (He was reacting to John Kerry’s –and...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014: the TABLET evasion
This is how the social democratic TABLET website ignored Holocaust Remembrance Day: http://tinyurl.com/jw6nll8. This was the headline: “Testing Positive for Judaism: Unlocking a Family’s Genetic...
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