Iran vs. America’s Crisis of Moral Confidence
We were once willing to stand up and walk away. What happened?
April 20, 2015
Psychoanalysis, Jewishness, and the Murder of the Century
Does the Leopold and Loeb case say anything about Jewish identity?
Meyer Levin’s 1956 novel Compulsion, recently reissued, is a fictionalized account of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb’s infamous murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. Although Levin’s perpetrators are named Steiner and Straus, the story sticks closely to the actual facts of the crime, which was committed in 1924. Adam Kirsch examines the case’s grip on the popular imagination, the novel’s understanding of the killers, and Levin’s treatment of the Jewish identity of both criminals and victim:
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Is Hamas Pursuing Its Own Path to Statehood?
It's thinking about declaring Gaza an independent state.
Psychoanalysis, Jewishness, and the Murder of the Century
Does the Leopold and Loeb case say anything about Jewish identity?
Why Jews Should Care about the Slaughter of Iraq’s Yazidis
"We never met any Yazidis. But isn’t that the point?"
How Sephardi Jews Brought Their Traditional Alcohol to America
The story of raki in America.