Category Archives: Jewish

The Great Waning of Jewish Victimhood

In Takimag, Steve Sailer (whom Ann Coulter just mentioned on The O’Baxter Factory last night) asks “Are Jews Losing Control of the Media?”: In recent months, Jewish centrists such as journalists Jonathan Chait and Jamie Kirchick have become increasingly alarmed over whether … Continue reading

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Sheldon’s World

When it comes to dual loyalties, it can always be determined, through even thought experiments, that one or the other loyalty is primary. In “Is It Sheldon Adelson’s World?“, Thomas Friedman discusses our old buddy Sheldon Adelson: And when it … Continue reading

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Mark Rothko’s Jewish Mysticism

From his review of Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal, Philip Hensher writes: One of the curiosities of western art is that, until the 20th century, few visual artists were of Jewish ancestry. With odd … Continue reading

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Fresh Latkes

The NYT has a piece titled “Cry Heard Around Washington: ‘I Need a Netanyahu Ticket’“: Admission to the prime minister’s speech to Congress on Tuesday was “hotter than fresh latkes,” Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York said.

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New Yorker: Let’s Masturbate to Jon Stewart

From the towering heights of liberal, NYC, Jewish institutions (i.e., Culture, Inc.), it truly is astonishing how much they are fretting about Jon Stewart’s imminent retirement.

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Teachout: Bob Hope’s Success Was Because He Wasn’t Jewish

Terry Teachout, reviewing Hope: Entertainer of the Century, Richard Zoglin’s new biography of Bob Hope, isn’t much of a fan of Hope, believing him to be overrated as a comedian and safe in his humor. Consequently, Teachout believes Hope’s massive … Continue reading

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Bob Simon & Herbert Marcuse

Writing in the New Yorker (ahem), Bernard Avishai (ahem) writes about “Bob Simon and Herbert Marcuse”, the former being the late ethnocentric journalist and 60 Minutes regular whom I previously wrote about: I knew Bob Simon, the longtime CBS correspondent, … Continue reading

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JYT: 2/19/15

Movin’ up the charts:

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David Brooks: On Christianity, Thumbs Up to The Organizer

Token NYT ‘conservative’ David Brooks on The Organizer’s equivocation between Islam today and Christianity 600 years ago: New York Times columnist David Brooks said on Meet the Press yesterday he’s “totally pro-Obama” in how President Obama warned Christians not to … Continue reading

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Harrison Report, Patton, & the Holocaust Memorial Industry

Making waves at NYT.com is “Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America” by Eric Lichtblau, Washington correspondent for The New York Times and the author of “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s … Continue reading

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