Class Acts
Ep. 330: Author Michael Lewis on life among the Jews and CNN’s Dana Bash on reporting on antisemitism
This week on Unorthodox, lots of lox drama at one Manhattan synagogue.
Our gentile of the week is author and podcaster Michael Lewis, who gamely revisits his 1993 “Toy Goy” article in the New Republic, tells us about being on the receiving end of antisemitic taunts for attending the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, and shares what he learned researching his 2016 book, The Undoing Project, about the friendship between Israeli cognitive psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.
Our Jew of the week is Dana Bash, CNN’s chief political correspondent and the co-anchor of CNN’s State of the Union. She joins us to tell us what she learned while reporting her recent CNN special, Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America, and why she decided to also make the story personal.
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