What Palestinians Want
Pragmatic in the short term, radical in the long term.
July 10, 2020
Philip Roth Wasn’t a Nice Jewish Boy. But What Kind of Jewish Boy Was He?
Sympathetic to Israel and hostile to the radical left, Roth was not always the rebellious Jew.
“Enough being a nice Jewish boy!” exclaims Alexander Portnoy in Philip Roth’s eponymous novel. To many of his readers, that sentence sums up Roth’s attitude toward his people, his fiction, and perhaps his very worldview. But, writes Jesse Tisch in his review of Benjamin Taylor’s Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth, the late American Jewish writer did not always play the rebellious Jew. He had little tolerance, for instance, for anti-Semitism, even when disguised as contempt for Israel:
July 10, 2020
Remembering the Iraqi Intellectual Who Stood Up for the Jews
But didn’t dare stand up for the Jewish state.
The First Amendment Doesn’t Create a “Class of Special Rights”
Getting the Supreme Court’s Little Sisters of the Poor ruling wrong.
What the Story of Phineas Teaches about Morality, Politics, and Plague
Politics must be as moral as possible if a nation is to flourish in the long run.
Philip Roth Wasn’t a Nice Jewish Boy. But What Kind of Jewish Boy Was He?
Sympathetic to Israel and hostile to the radical left, Roth was not always the rebellious Jew.