Feb
17
2025
This week: In a new analysis, editor-at-large Peter Beinart argues that recent university antisemitism reports are fundamentally flawed in their conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and in their elevation of the positions of rightwing groups over academic experts.
For our recent Winter issue, executive editor Nora Caplan-Bricker reviews Rachel Kushner’s new novel Creation Lake, arguing the book trades in Kushner’s characteristic sense of possibility for an aesthetic of cynicism.
And in light of a new slew of antisemitic social media posts made by the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, we are sharing our 2022 podcast episode on what his statements say about the state of Black-Jewish discourse.
Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.
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