Joe Moshenska Milton, Freud, and My Cousin Hymie I found in Paradise Lost an unexpected affinity among its author, the psychoanalyst, and myself. What the anti-Semite Ezra Pound called the poet’s “beastly hebraism” held the key. November 9, 2021
Corey Robin Arendt and Roth: An Uncanny Convergence Despite very different lives, the two writers not only knew and liked each other, but also found common cause in the great concerns that animated their work. May 12, 2021
Jonathan Freedland Labour’s Anti-Semitism Saga, the Denouement Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension after defying a report’s damning conclusions about his leadership was the last twist in a shameful chapter of the party’s history. November 3, 2020
Matt Seaton When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute? It appears that an effort to rinse Senator Burton K. Wheeler’s reputation has led Getty Images to misstate the historical record, leaving the impression that Charles Lindbergh and his America First friends were purely good patriots. July 25, 2020
Sarah Churchwell American Fascism: It Has Happened Here “In America Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is,” the poet and activist Langston Hughes told an audience in the 1930s. “We know.” June 22, 2020
Kate Maltby Making Hungary Greater Again What Viktor Orbán may not say himself while conducting international diplomacy, he tolerates in his outriders. Nationalist calls for a return to “Greater Hungary” are here to stay. June 3, 2020
Matt Seaton The Righteous Mayor of Vibraye The remarkable story of how Huguette Martel survived the Holocaust turned out to have quite the dénouement—for the version she’d known for the first eight decades of her life was significantly incomplete. The full history was even more inspiring. March 12, 2020
Kate Maltby Tom Stoppard’s Theatre of Memory For Stoppard, this play is a personal “coming-out.” That may be a difficult concept for some American Jews to understand, but England is not America. February 14, 2020
Caryl Phillips The Real Meaning of ‘Rachmanism’ Rachman was depicted as a sleazy foreigner, a stateless Jew, willing to rent properties to blacks and prostitutes had undermined the lives of decent white English people. All of this flowed into the undertow of what was understood by “Rachmanism.” December 23, 2019
Jed S. Rakoff Washington’s Legacy for American Jews As Washington envisaged in his letter, Americans have in so many ways become “a great and a happy people,” Jewish Americans not least among them. But eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. September 23, 2019