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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Jonah Goldberg |Christine Emba |Chris Stirewalt |Adam Kirsch
Multimedia Incelphobia Multimedia The Allegory of the Trade Multimedia Uniting the Sane Multimedia Unsettled Colonialism Multimedia A Hell of Our Own Creation Multimedia Pronouns In Bio Multimedia Tariff Terrorism Multimedia The Guinness World Record of Self-Sabotage Multimedia Big Government Now Multimedia NATO Nihilism Multimedia On Mobs and Mobsters Multimedia When the Right Went Woke Multimedia Contempt for Congress Multimedia Mending the Bootstraps Multimedia Appeasing the New Axis...
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Adam Kirsch
“Sons and Daughters” is quite probably the last great Yiddish novel. Chaim Grade, who was born in what is now Lithuania, in 1910, and spent the second half of his life in the Bronx, wrote it from the mid-nineteen-sixties through the mid-nineteen-seventies. It appeared in serial form in two New York-based Yiddish newspapers, first Tog-Morgn Zhurnal (Day-Morning Journal) and then Forverts (Forward).
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2 months ago | 
sapirjournal.org | Adam Kirsch
Is it antisemitic to be anti-Zionist? The question has been unavoidable since the Hamas attack of October 7. For most American Jews, protesters who chant “from the river to the sea” are ipso facto antisemitic: What could be more hostile to Jews than calling for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state?
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2 months ago | 
meforum.org | Adam Kirsch
The phenomenon of pro-Hamas activism by self-described “progressives” in the United States following the October 7 massacre demands an explanation. Kirsch partially provides this in his slim volume on the ideology of settler colonialism. This set of convictions portrays America’s founding as “an unmitigated disaster” that, in the words of one prominent scholar, “should never have happened.” Israel is seen as a singular source of evil.
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2 months ago | 
city-journal.org | Adam Kirsch
The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle, by Charles de Gaulle (Simon & Schuster, 976 pp., $23)When Charles de Gaulle published the first volume of his war memoirs, in 1954, it looked like an acknowledgment that he no longer belonged to the present, but to history. His achievements during the Second World War were indeed historic. In June 1940, as France collapsed and its leaders agreed to a humiliating armistice, de Gaulle escaped to London.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
modernagejournal.com | Adam Kirsch
Memorialized on Marx’s tombstone in London’s Highgate Cemetery is one of the most famous lines he ever wrote: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” It was a mission statement. Marx did not want merely to understand and critique bourgeois society; he wished that his work might play some part in its revolutionary overthrow. Elsewhere, he wrote that history repeats itself as farce.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jewishreviewofbooks.com | Adam Kirsch |Akiva Schick |Arthur A. Cohen |Jacob Taubes
Belknap Press 384 pp., $37.95 In the French edition of Simone Weil’s collected works published by Gallimard, a volume is devoted to “Family Correspondence,” consisting of letters Weil wrote to her parents, Bernard and Selma, and her older brother, André, a brilliant mathematician. These have now been translated into English under the title A Life in Letters, but what is most interesting and important about Weil’s life can be deduced from these letters only by omission.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
compactmag.com | Adam Kirsch
As the fires in Los Angeles continue to multiply, the closing sentences of Joan Didion’s essay “The Santa Ana” have begun to pop up in news stories and on social media. “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse,” Didion wrote in 1967, especially the hot, dry wind known as the Santa Ana, which blows across the city from the desert to the ocean, bringing fires in its wake.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Adam Kirsch
A new history of the apocalyptic impulse Listen to more stories on harkIn 1985, when I was 9 years old, I watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone, a reboot of the classic early-1960s TV series. People rarely talk about the ’80s version, which ran for just three seasons. But there must be other viewers around my age who have never forgotten “A Little Peace and Quiet,” the second story in that debut episode.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam Kirsch |Robert Nicholson |Rachel Lu |Tikvah Fellow
The Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, has been called the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust, “Israel’s 9/11,” and the opening salvo in a larger war. Astute observers have gone further, seeing the invasion and its aftermath—a spontaneous global intifada against Jews around the world—as the harbinger of something deeper and darker.
