Two Decades of Hamas’s Smuggling Tunnels
And the even longer story of the Sinai-to-Gaza arms pipeline.
August 15, 2024
Revisiting “American Pastoral” in the Wake of October 7
Philip Roth, American Jews, and the inescapability of history.
At the center of Philip Roth’s 1997 novel American Pastoral is Seymour Levov, a Newark Jew whose blond hair, blue eyes, and athletic prowess earn him the nickname “Swede” among his admiring high school classmates. Swede’s happy and successful adulthood is torn asunder when his daughter Merry gets caught up in the campus radicalism of the 1960s and takes up terrorism. Revisiting the novel form the perspective of 2024, Irina Velitskaya understands it as
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A Major Opponent of Academic Boycotts Has Changed Its Stance
The AAUP has created a new “right” for professors.
Iran Takes Another Step Closer to Nuclear Weapons
A bombshell U.S. intelligence report.
Revisiting “American Pastoral” in the Wake of October 7
Philip Roth, American Jews, and the inescapability of history.
The Religious Life of Richard Nixon
And the time a rabbi showed up to speak with the ex-president.