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In an hour and a half, the Wannsee Conference decided the fates of millions of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. HBO’s 2001 movie Conspiracy dramatizes...
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In an hour and a half, the Wannsee Conference decided the fates of millions of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. HBO’s 2001 movie Conspiracy dramatizes...
A week or so ago, I posted a comment in response to a FACEBOOK post that posed the question, and I paraphrase, “Considering how...
Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
…AND I’M GONNA SAY IT NOW. I recently hired the son of a friend to do a bit of cleanup of the mess that...
*Literally translated, “When the Messiah Comes.” In actual usage, a sarcastic/dismissive response, to, for example, “When can I/we_____?” or “When will you/they______?” in reply,...
Arriving this July from Dark Horse Comics and Yoe Books is a powerful new book about cartoonists who fought against racism. Cartoonists Against Racism:...
I gather, from a Facebook post this morning, that another cartoonist has joined the ranks of those afflicted by Shmuckholm Syndrome. Oh, well. In...
William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is a comedy. Yes. Hard to believe I know, but at the time it was written, and all the...
…AND, OF COURSE, TRIGGER WARNINGS I spend considerable time in hotel rooms, eighty days a year on average. This past month, I spent ten...
I had been tweaking a substack piece about my misreading of popular culture, and my struggle to finally understand it, before I left the...
I’ve read a number of dismissive posts in regard to YOU PEOPLE, the latest, and typically fatuous, version of GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER,...
I spent the first thirty-five years of my life in New York City. For the record, and I assume many of you who are...
Edited by Hillary Chute Published by Pantheon In 1986 Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus was published and became a deeply loved and agonized-over...
I recently made the tactical mistake, not to mention the social gaffe, of disagreeing with someone on his page, in regard to a post,...
The 1619 PROJECT apparently confirms for the right that the New York Times is a tool of the left. The recent editorial about free...