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Category Archives: Jewish
Beinart: How TNR Stopped Being a Jewish Magazine
In the wake of TNR’s implosion, Peter Beinart (ahem), who used to be the Editor of TNR, has a column in Haaretz (ahem) titled “How The New Republic stopped being a Jewish magazine.” (ahem). He sees TNR’s implosion as “an … Continue reading
Rosen on Leo Strauss
In “Athens on the Midway: Defending Leo Strauss”, Gary Rosen (former managing editor of Commentary… ahem) writes a defense, of sorts, of the ‘Dark Lord’ of neoconservatism, Leo Strauss. I chuckled at the following paragraph, representing the perils of attempting … Continue reading
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TNY on TNR
For those who care about such things (yawn), in The New Yorker (a NYC cultural powerbroker with a mostly Jewish stable of writers) Ryan Lizza writes about the collapse of The New Republic (another NYC cultural powerbroker with a mostly … Continue reading
JYT: 12/14/14
A story on eco-friendly, kosher seafood is moving up the charts:
JYT: 12/10/14
Whether it’s an Obits feature or a ‘most-emailed’, every day represents a particular, narrow, social milieu.
The Argumentative Jew
In the Jewish Review of Books, the living caricature Leon Wieseltier, late of TNR, writes on “The Argumentative Jew“: The Jewish tradition—the tradition of the argumentative Jew—is a long and great challenge to the consensualist mentality. It repudiates, sometimes in … Continue reading
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JYT: 12/9/14
Currently, the top 10 ‘most emailed’ NYT stories include:
Depictions of Jewishness in ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
The Jewish tropes in Seinfeld and (more pointedly) Curb Your Enthusiasm have been sporadically written about by race realists. From a different perspective, here are the abstracts of 4 unpublished conference papers by Evan Cooper on the theme of Jewishness … Continue reading
TNR
From Politico: The majority of The New Republic’s masthead resigned en masse on Friday following the owner’s decision to force out the editorial leadership, move the magazine to New York, and rebrand the venerable, century-old publication as a “digital media … Continue reading
Irving Kristol on Jews and Judaism
Gertrude Himmelfarb, the noted neoconservative writer and wife of Irving Kristol, discusses “Irving Kristol on Jews and Judaism“: “Is there such a thing as a ‘neo’ gene?” With this query Irving Kristol opens his 1995 essay, “An Autobiographical Memoir.” His … Continue reading
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