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Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
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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, âWhen the Messiah Comes.â In actual usage, a sarcastic/dismissive response, to, for example, âWhen can I/we_____?â or âWhen will you/they______?â 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 Shakespeareâs 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...
Iâve read a number of dismissive posts in regard to YOU PEOPLE, the latest, and typically fatuous, version of GUESS WHOâS 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 Spiegelmanâs 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...