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This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss ethnic tensions in Russia, the race for AI talent, Chinese-Pakistani relations, and Walter’s new Tablet essay on why the golden age of the Wonk is coming to an end
March 29, 2024
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This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss ethnic tensions in Russia, the race for AI talent, Chinese-Pakistani relations, and Walter’s new Tablet essay on why the golden age of the Wonk is coming to an end
March 29, 2024
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Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024)
The celebrated scholar of poetry, a fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan, died this week at age 92.
Read her 2019 conversation with Jeremy Sigler on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage
And a second, 2022 interview, talking Duchamp and Wittgenstein, again with Sigler
Perloff was also a Tablet contributor. Read her critical review of Ken Burns’s PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, and her appraisals of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s The Investigations and Elias Canneti’s Auto-da-Fé as seminal works in the Jewish literary cannon.
Jewish Home Run King
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Career home runs by Hank Greenberg, the most by any Jew in major league history