Jews Occupy a Lonely Place“You can be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic. You can be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic.”May 20, 2021May 20, 2021
Review: The Broken Heart of AmericaAfter George Floyd was killed I posted a story on Instagram about reading a book called The Broken Heart is America by Walter Johnson. I…Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020
Review: The Evolving Self, by Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiLast year in the doldrums of my first semester of law school, I began to understand why law school is hard. Time. No concept is so…Jan 6, 2020Jan 6, 2020
From Emancipation to Annihilation —The illusory successes and forlorn failures of Jews’ integration in midcentury Czechoslovakia and Russia.Apr 11, 2018Apr 11, 2018
From Integration to Estrangement —Themes and causes of change in the Jewish experience between the 1850s and 1890s in Russia and Austria-Hungary.Apr 11, 2018Apr 11, 2018
Review: The Rebel by Albert CamusPolitical instinct and philosophic imagination are strange bedfellows.Mar 24, 2018Mar 24, 2018
Review: Down and Out in Paris and London, by George OrwellLike most readers, I know George Orwell for “1984.” Since Donald Trump’s election, the book has, once again a half century after its…Feb 26, 2018Feb 26, 2018
Review: Lyndon Johnson and the American DreamLyndon Baines Johnson stands out among the Presidents of the last half century; his impact on American politics and culture was outsized…Jan 14, 2018Jan 14, 2018
America the ComplacentAt the eastern edge of the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900 stood the porte monumentale, a curious structure made of three arches, a dome and…Jul 16, 2017Jul 16, 2017
