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• The Third Narrative: Not So Third, Not a Narrative, Not New
  on Apr 7, 2014 in Israel Academic boycott of Israel Antisemitism BDS hateful rhetoric Israel boycott Israeli Occupation Israeli-Palestinian Conflict killing civilians The Third Narrative initiative
  (This essay originally appeared in the Algemeiner on April 3, 2014.) I regret to say that a fair number of people I respect (and some not so much) have signed on to a statement about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that, evince as it may the best of...
• Ave Atque Vale
  on Apr 4, 2014 in The Political Animal
  from Ave Atque Vale by Algernon Charles Swinburne XVIII For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,       Take at my hands this garland, and farewell.       Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell, And chill the solemn earth, a fatal...
• Let Your Soul Stand Cool and Composed
  on Mar 24, 2014 in Culture Clash cool Djuna Barnes Fred Astaire Lauren Bacall Lester Young Miles Davis National Portrait Gallery Paul Newman Steve McQueen
  From the National Portrait Gallery in Washington comes an exhibition on one of my favorite subjects: the cool. “American Cool” offers up its representative icons of cool in portraits by renowned photographers, such as Avedon, Arbus, and...
• Ukraine and Legitimacy
  on Mar 17, 2014 in The Political Animal Crimea governmental authority governmental legitimacy legal-rational authority New York Times revolution Russia Ukraine United States Viktor Yanukovych Vladimir Putin
  It is fascinating to witness with events in Ukraine an enduring controversy of history in the making. Controversies arise all the time, of course, but some are drawn in more dramatic relief than others, and one of those is Ukraine, 2013-14. Most West...
• The Revolution with No Name
  on Mar 11, 2014 in The Political Animal American Revolution Barack Obama democracy French Revolution geopolitics humanitarian intervention Russia Russian Revolution Syria Ukraine United Nations United States Vladimir Putin
  When it seemed to some at the end of the Cold War that we had also reached the end of history, more than ever, every act of rebellion and revolution seemed cause to celebrate an elevated human spirit. After a long winter of merely staving off an enem...
• A Misguided Argument About Anti-Semitism
  on Feb 18, 2014 in Israel The Political Animal anti-Semitism class envy class warfare economic inequalitiy economic justice Jewish nationalism Jews Marxism politics of grievance post-nationalism postcolonialism progressivism Ruth R. Wisse
  (This essay originally appeared in the Algemeiner on February 11, 2014.) In the Wall Street Journal of February 3, Harvard’s Ruth R. Wisse published an Op-Ed titled “The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent.” In the article, Wisse argues...
• Academic Boycotts and Re-Colonization by Theory
  on Feb 3, 2014 in Indian Country Israel The Political Animal American Studies Association Antisemitism Association for Asian American Studies BDS culture studies Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Indigenous People International Labor Organization’s Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention of 1989 Israeli apartheid Jewish indigeneity Jews left antisemitism Middle East Modern Language Association NAISA Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Native Americans New antisemitism Omar Barghouti Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Palestinian people postcolonialism settler-colonialism U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issue Working Paper on the Concept of “Indigenous People”
  (The full text of the following essay was published by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.) from “Academic Boycotts and Recolonization by Theory“  As a matter of international justice, however, conceptually distinguishing and crucial...
• Wrong on Both Counts: Academic Boycotts and Israel
  on Jan 6, 2014 in Israel academic freedom American Studies Association anti-authoritarianism apartheid ASA BDS Boycott Divestment and Sanction intellectual freedom Israel academic boycott Israeli apartheid Omar Barghouti Omar Barghouti BDS South Africa Stanley Fish
  (An earlier version of this essay first appeared in the Algemeiner on December 30, 2013.) Now that the American Studies Association has passed its resolution calling for an  academic boycott of Israel, universities and fellow academics all over the...
• Do You Give to the Ones Who Are Drunk?
  on Dec 23, 2013 in Culture Clash Judaism Julia Dean Maimonides Manhattan New York Recipes for a Sacred Life:: True Stories and a Few Miracles Redbook Rivvy Neshama Tzedakah
  Good friend Rivvy Neshama has written a book, Recipes For a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles, that is the accumulation of a life’s gained wisdom. Panning through the grains of the sad red earth, we see the fool’s-gold sparkl...
• A Second Look: Thinking Through the Iranian Dilemma
  on Dec 16, 2013 in Israel The Political Animal Barack Obama Iran nuclear Iran
  I posted the following on March 19 of last year. Nothing that has transpired since, not even the recently achieved, yet still not implemented short-term deal – which I think a basis for justified future military action just as it is, more hopef...

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