History & Ideas
Spending the Korean war in Texas.
Which language was patient zero for the old expression, “We’ve been smallpoxed and measled”?
David S. Wyman, 1928-2018.
Promising to buy books in synagogue?
A former militant member of the Jewish Defense League reflects.
Rabbi, ambassador, sailor, spy.
An eighty-six-year-old explorer followed the desert path on foot.
The man who would ban Spinoza first wrote poetry in Brazil.
The rulers of Armageddon?
In his new book, Leon Kass shows Americans how to honor the benefits of liberal democracy, including individual freedom and human equality, while recognizing their high costs.
Was there a massacre at Deir Yassin?
Having a Jewish grandmother didn’t stop Hildebrand Gurlitt from becoming the Nazis’ favorite art dealer.
America is a story of freedom, not simply an abstraction.
Between the Germans and the Jews, they were neutral.
