Persuasion, Not Coercion, Is the Way to Get European Support for Sanctions on Iran
Publicize Iranian violations of international law.
June 20, 2018
Bad Reasons for Publishing Céline’s Anti-Semitic Screeds
A great novelist, and Nazi sympathizer.
In addition to his celebrated 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote three political “pamphlets”—one nearly 400 pages in length—between 1937 and 1941 warning of the Jewish threat to France. These often-scatological works endorse wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and justify the murder of Jews. Last year, the French publishing house Gallimard announced its plans to publish a new edition of these pamphlets, leading to months of intense controversy in France. Eventually Gallimard backed down, although not without issuing a statement that “condemning [the pamphlets] to censorship hinders efforts to reveal their roots and ideological reach and cultivates an unhealthy curiosity instead of critical reasoning.” Robert Zaretsky responds:
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Standing with the North Korean People Will Advance America’s Interests
A lesson from the experience of Soviet dissidents.
Lessons for Syria from the Man Who Taught the Haganah
Orde Wingate’s counterinsurgency rules.
Bad Reasons for Publishing Céline’s Anti-Semitic Screeds
A great novelist, and Nazi sympathizer.
In the Ancient City of Gamla, a Synagogue That Predates the Destruction of the Second Temple
And the site of a heroic fight against the Romans.