Ann Marlowe

Ann Marlowe, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, is a writer and financial investigator in New York. She is the author of How to Stop Time. Her Twitter feed is at @annmarlowe.

200 Years After Her Death, Jane Austen Refuses to Meet Our Polite Expectations
‘Jane Austen: The Secret Radical,’ reassesses the writer and new face of the £10 note as Jewishly attentive to the complex moral challenges of life
byAnn Marlowe
Stop Donald Trump From Colonizing Your Brain
Like a Libyan dictator of old, the leader is everywhere, including inside your head
byAnn Marlowe
And How Are We Tonight, President Trump?
Bad faith, political speech, and the intrusive ‘we’
byAnn Marlowe
Another Strand in the Tapestry
Who is behind Trump’s political data analytics company?
byAnn Marlowe
Some Deep Thoughts on ‘War Dogs’
The pair of Jewish losers at the heart of the new arms-smuggling serio-comedy ‘War Dogs’ remind us that losers who dream big may be losers, but at least they dream big
byAnn Marlowe
Will Donald Trump’s Data-Analytics Company Allow Russia to Access Research on U.S. Citizens?
Tracing the suspicious-looking, and messy, ties between a Ukrainian oligarch, an elections-information firm, and the GOP candidate’s former campaign manager
byAnn Marlowe
Do We Really Want To Be Members of a Tribe?
Sebastian Junger’s fascinatingly wrong-headed ‘Tribe: on Homecoming and Belonging’
byAnn Marlowe
TOEFL, a Desperately Dull and Profoundly Unfair Exam, Abuses the English Language
I tried to prep a pair of Afghan teens for American boarding school, but instead of teaching them the language they need, I spent all my time explaining cultural references and unfamiliar contexts
byAnn Marlowe
‘13 Hours’ Says: Why Think When You Can Shoot?
Why Michael Bay’s Benghazi fantasy is a dangerously stupid movie
byAnn Marlowe
‘The Great Gatsby,’ Set in London, Starring a Jewish Oligarch
It’s an accomplished retelling of an American classic, but Vesna Goldsworthy’s new novel ‘Gorsky’ is missing one key character
byAnn Marlowe
So, What Went Wrong With the Arab Spring?
Post-Qaddafi Libya was supposed to be something other than the chaos it has become
byAnn Marlowe
Why Anthony Trollope Is the Most Jewish of the Great English Novelists
Happy 200th birthday, you ‘hair-oil using, false-jewel wearing, tailorish non-gentlefolk.’ You’re one of us.
byAnn Marlowe
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible in Putin’s Russia
The post-Soviet, postmodern illiberal kleptocracy as a harbinger and warning bell for—the West?
byAnn Marlowe
A Heartbreaking Picture of Rare Genius Shows America Without Jews
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is the best film of 2014, and one of the least Jewish movies ever made
byAnn Marlowe
The People of the Book vs. The People of the Kindle
What happens when our libraries are purged from our homes, replacing spines with screens?
byAnn Marlowe
Wanted: Jewish Male Psychopath
Kevin Dutton’s new best-seller rehashes Norman Mailer’s ideas on deviance, but it leaves out Jewish men
byAnn Marlowe
Value Free
A morally bankrupt exhibition in New York suggests how not to look at architecture in the Middle East—by neglecting the works’ political contexts
byAnn Marlowe
Native Son
A Tunisia-born Jew and French officer who fought the Berbers in Algeria pioneered the counterinsurgency warfare still used in Iraq and Afghanistan
byAnn Marlowe