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“The Civilized World Seems Tired of Its Civilization” December 09, 2024
“Israel is pressed, it is a suffering country,” a sympathetic visitor says with a sigh. International organizations, the intellectual Left, and much of Europe are arrayed against it. American support is shaky. The Israelis are fighting for their exis...
Ad for Israel Book Canceled October 24, 2024
A prominent trade publication refused to advertise a new book because it feared the word Israel in its title might upset its audience, The Free Press has learned. This month Melanie Notkin, an author and communications consultant, tried to place an a...
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Hates Israel October 14, 2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fundamental problem is that he is a narcissist. Other people interest him only insofar as they reflect his own thoughts and feelings. That is what makes him such a bad reporter, a shortcoming he freely admits to. “Part of me would ...
The Faith of Michel Houellebecq October 09, 2024
For the miserable loners who populate Michel Houellebecq’s novels, there is no refuge from the modern world’s awfulness—“no Israel,” as one of them says. Over three decades, the French novelist has tallied the grim costs of “l’extension du domaine de...
The Fantasy World of Ta-Nehisi Coates October 04, 2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of those journalists treated by the left-of-center establishment more like a prophet than a writer. There are few accolades he hasn’t been granted, few prizes he’s yet to win. He’s received a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur ...
A Beacon of Hope October 04, 2024
In one of modern philosophy’s most celebrated scuffles, Jean-Paul Sartre derided Albert Camus for rejecting violence committed in service of noble ideals. If you snub your nose at movements that practice armed resistance, Sartre warned, you’ll end up...
George Gilder's Brilliant 'The Israel Test' September 19, 2024
Without defending some (or a lot) of its anti-growth economic policies, the easily-forgotten truth is that California is by far the most enterprising, entrepreneurial state in the most enterprising, entrepreneurial country in the world. Evidence supp...
Editor’s Picks September 13, 2024
This week, don’t miss a new edition of Wilfrid Sheed’s 1966 masterpiece, the retelling of a 1980s hostage crisis, and Bernard-Henri Lévy on Israel....
