With John Murray Cuddihy’s ‘The Ordeal of Civility’ and Yuri Slezkine’s ‘The Jewish Century,’ Tablet begins a three-part look at the once-vibrant Jewish trait of not caring what the goyim think
Third in a series on the American left: a tale of buried treasure
And are we now on the eve of the emergence of a new, Fifth International?
New illustrated biographies of three great Jewish thinkers are funny, articulate, and vivid
The late political theorist, Marxist philosopher, and urbanist, who died this year, was my teacher and spiritual guide
For those too young to remember the Cold War but old enough to be trapped by the Great Recession, Marxism holds new appeal
Remembering the author, who died yesterday at 72
An impressive new biography looks at the original Jewish leftist—and shines light on the appeal of radical politics for Jews
Plus Eisner slapped on wrist, the lawyer behind the lawsuits, and more
The Sabbath is but one of the Jewish contributions to the science of keeping time
Norman Podhoretz unravels the mystery of Jewish attachment to liberalism
Gertrude Himmelfarb charts Victorian novelist George Eliot’s road to philo-Semitism
