Set in 1930s Mississippi, Ryan Coogler’s new film torches the shallow pieties of contemporary progressive identity crap
Ask yourself why you’re not hearing about this story
Making clear distinctions among monsters is important, especially now
A hideous attack is transformed into a statement of bloodied but unbowed humanism
An object lesson about the rewards and limitations of Jewish assimilation in France
The poet and singer was ‘attuned to the divine, whatever the divine might be… with the unburdened heart of a believer’
In a new biography, historian Anita Shapira deciphers Israel’s inscrutable founding father
What my fellow Tablet writer gets wrong about privilege—and liberalism
The Brooklyn-born punk star, writer, and poet altered the New York cultural landscape
An excerpt from the original Tablet Kindle Single ‘Conspiracy of Letters,’ available from Amazon.com today
It’s a good thing the Finance Minister’s boxing days are over
The two Tableteers debate the author’s legacy ahead of his 80th birthday
A writer’s plea goes up in smoke
The source of the order has been pinpointed
A Tablet talk featuring Katz’s Jake Dell and Mile End’s Noah Bernamoff
Comment of the Week
The Rebutter
Cain and Abel offer an important lesson, says a UCLA professor in the new book Bloodlust: It’s familiarity, not otherness, that breeds violence.
