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Jew York Times: Pt. 912,331
Currently #10 on the most-emailed list:
Jack Donaghy Says…
Jack: How is the search for the new cast member going? Lemon: Okay. I saw a few good alternative comics in San Francisco. Jack: San Francisco?! I asked you to find an actor from middle America, a real person. You’re … Continue reading
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Jew York Times: Pt. 719,288
Currently #8 on NYT.com (but trailing behind “Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?“) is “Synagogue Rebooted“). The story’s first paragraph: At a rock club on the edge of SoHo on a recent Saturday, Amichai Lau-Lavie stood in … Continue reading
In Defense of Heidegger
Of the so-called Heidegger Schwarzen Hefte (aka ‘Black Notebooks‘) recently published, Jonathan Rée writes: [I]t seems to me a remarkable piece of publicity-seeking on the part of the publisher, who hints that we may at last find the black heart … Continue reading
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Free Mel Gibson
It’s been 11 years since any Hollywood studio has employed Mel Gibson. I wonder why… He must’ve offended Christians or something. Yes, he’s done some independent work since that little film of his in ’06, but for many years I’ve … Continue reading
Jew York Times: Pt. 623,119
In “The Jews, a History in So Many, Many Words” (currently #3 on the NYT.com website), Dwight Garner reviews Simon Schama’s recent forays into Jewish history: Simon Schama, the prolific and protean British historian whose topics have included the French … Continue reading
Michael Walzer on “Imaginary Jews”
Michael Walzer is a prominent, A-list, liberal, political philosopher who is also very much what one might call a racially conscious Jew. Over his career Walzer has written numerous pieces on Jewish themes and Jewish identity. For example, here is … Continue reading
The Wolf & The Cohen
A powerful section of Yuri Slezine’s The Jewish Century (2004) is his discussion of Poland’s struggles after Soviet takeover of the country after WWII. Slezkine presents evidence that, within Polish communist party factions, the Polish-heavy communist faction favored a blend … Continue reading
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Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy centered around the increasing rootlessness, and subsequent alienation, endemic to modernity. Newly released Heidegger notebooks have ignited a debate over whether Heidegger was an anti-semite, when the real debate should center on Heidegger’s perspective on the ‘rootlessness’ … Continue reading
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Bridgegate Pt. 3,195: Tempest in a Teapot
It’s astonishing how obsessed the liberal media is, this many months later, with a singular traffic jam on a bridge. The Clinton admin routinely targeted political enemies as well as civilian enemies (remember “sluts and nuts”?) when expedient. The Obama … Continue reading