Hamas Is Outsourcing Terror to Avoid Israeli Retaliation. The U.S. Should Respond with Sanctions
Creating plausible deniability.
June 16, 2020
Remembering Irving Howe’s Abilities as a Literary Critic and Observer of the American Jewish Predicament
Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.
Last Thursday would have been the 100th birthday of the great American Jewish writer Irving Howe. A staunch socialist throughout his life, Howe—in the words of his protégé Michael Walzer—had an unwavering commitment to “defending freedom and democracy against Stalinist repression and its local apologists,” even when it meant provoking the ire of his fellow leftists. But Howe was also a gifted literary critic and eagle-eyed observer of American Jewish life. He exhibited both qualities in his 1946 review of Isaac Rosenfeld’s now-forgotten novel Passage from Home, in which he examines the protagonist, Bernard, as a peculiar of American Jewish type:
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Europe Should Join the U.S. in Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program
Tehran is violating restrictions that predate the 2015 nuclear agreement.
How Turkey Fans the Flames on the Temple Mount
In collaboration with the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Remembering Irving Howe’s Abilities as a Literary Critic and Observer of the American Jewish Predicament
Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.
How Renaissance Humanists Can Help Resolve the Crisis of Liberal Education
In their view, religion both complemented and restrained the humanities.