Chloé Valdary

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Reviel Netz |Akiva Schick |Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |Chloé Valdary

The Winter 2024 issue of the Jewish Review of Books included not one, but two essays on anti-Israelism (the term coined in Jonathan Karp’s trenchant piece). I am grateful—especially since its editor, Abraham Socher, remains skeptical. Antisemitism, he notes, was always plural, a set of ideas, practices, and attitudes that bear what Ludwig Wittgenstein called a family resemblance to each other: “The Pauline contempt . . . the hatred of the High Middle Ages . . .

Apr 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Matti Friedman |Akiva Schick |Chloé Valdary |Konstanty Gebert

I took my copy of George Orwell: Essays off my bookshelf in Jerusalem once again this month, amid the global psychiatric episode triggered by the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Jan 15, 2024 | bigthink.com | Chloé Valdary

One day Steve Jobs was asked to describe what he found most important in the development of a product. His response is worth reading in full: “You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was that after I left, John Scully got a very serious disease. And that disease, I’ve seen other people get it too: it’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work.