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With a Nod to ’68, Columbia Grad Students Strike
Fifty years after the student occupation, Columbia’s graduate union goes to the picket line in its fight for recognition.
Alex Press April 25, 2018
Poland’s New Holocaust Law Is Bad, But Not the Worst
The law is an overreaction to some common mischaracterizations of Poland’s role in the Holocaust, but it’s far from the worst example of legal revisionism in Europe.
Dovid Katz April 25, 2018
The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte’s masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
Mitchell Abidor April 24, 2018
Birthright Israel and #MeToo
Jewish Currents spoke with more than 50 Birthright Israel participants and staffers about their experiences with the often-fraught sexual and gender dynamics on the famous free trip to Israel. Here is what we found.
Sarah M. Seltzer April 18, 2018
The Homeless: Disparaged and Scorned
Actually, we don’t have the slightest idea what the homeless need.
Allan Lichtenstein April 17, 2018
Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
Mitchell Abidor April 17, 2018
(Re)Writing Remembrance
Two grandchildren of Holocaust survivors exchange letters on making art and meaning from the Holocaust.
Maia Ipp and Arielle Angel April 17, 2018
MGM
Lawrence Bush April 16, 2018
