2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (294+ words) An error-filled new Harvard Law School report relies on terror-linked sources to depict Israel as burning Palestinian children to a crisp. Antisemitism at Harvard contributed to the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay and is at the center of a…...

1+ week, 52+ min ago   (710+ words) An indifferent grade-school student, a bored high-school one, my least favorite subject was English grammar, with punctuation a close second. Best I was able in those papers I wrote for school I steered clear of punctuation; the only punctuation I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (493+ words) The Philadelphia public schools hosted a series of "liberation" workshops for students taught by a convicted felon who has argued that Jews control the media and was involved in torching a police car. Anthony Smith, who has also praised the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (380+ words) William Lawrence (D.), a Hasan Piker superfan running for a competitive House seat in Michigan, called for "destroying the American way of life" and a cessation of all oil and gas drilling during a podcast discussion with Marxist activists. Lawrence, a…...

2+ week, 51+ min ago   (212+ words) Even before I plunged into reading Korean Messiah—with its 550-odd pages of narrative text and another 150 pages of endnotes—I was riveted by a map at the very beginning of the book. It depicted Central Pyongyang in 1912, two years…...

3+ week, 53+ min ago   (226+ words) Yad Vashem estimates nearly 200,000 books have been written about the Holocaust. We gain some fragments of insight from such works as André Schwarz-Bart's Last of the Just, Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz, Nikolaus Wachsmann's comprehensive history, and even Mel Brooks's…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (274+ words) Ro Khanna finally did something worth mentioning. The anti-capitalist congressman from Silicon Valley has dethroned Nancy Pelosi as the most prolific stock trader on Capitol Hill. Since 2025, Khanna's family has made roughly 7,200 trades involving stocks and other securities valued at…...

4+ week, 51+ min ago   (880+ words) My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow…...

4+ week, 53+ min ago   (722+ words) There's a word for what it's like to become a mother, matrescence, which describes the way a woman's brain and body reorient themselves around providing comfort, sustenance, and safety for a newborn child. There is no word for what happens…...