Newsletter

Ingénue

“What did the child dream of / back home in the provinces, / with nothing behind but landscape?”

Jameson Fitzpatrick March 17, 2023

Biden Won’t Stop Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup

The US has diplomatic tools that could put pressure on Israel—but the president seems unlikely to use them.

Joshua Leifer March 14, 2023

The Right to Grieve

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

Madeleine Baker March 13, 2023

ADL Staffers Dissented After CEO Compared Palestinian Rights Groups to Right-Wing Extremists, Leaked Audio Reveals

A special meeting called to answer internal critics shows that the ADL’s vocal opposition to the anti-Zionist left is controversial even within the organization.

Mari Cohen and Alex Kane March 8, 2023

Huwara and the Dangers of Annexation

A destructive settler attack on the village of Huwara showcased the immediate effects of a further tilt toward legal Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

Elisheva Goldberg March 7, 2023

Entering the DreamSpace

The new manifesto from the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey argues for a vision of rest as politically generative. But what kind of resistance, really, is rest?

Helen Betya Rubinstein March 6, 2023

Shall We Not Revenge?

In his polemic against Germany’s “Theater of Memory”—which relegates Jews to bit parts in the nation’s redemption narrative—poet Max Czollek may have traded one melodrama for another.

Sanders Isaac Bernstein March 3, 2023

So Trued to a Roar

“No answer, unless of leaves / acquiring light, and small lives / going about their business / of being less”

Christian Wiman March 3, 2023