Archive for: anti-semitism

Jews and America

For better and worse.

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Anti-Simitism

Judenhass turned out to be a well meant but bizarrely misconceived work that disappointed on pretty much every level.

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Not a Gentleman

Anthony Trollope, Enlightenment liberalism, Jews, capitalism, and the evils of modernity.

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Strange Windows: The Adventures of Tintin in Otherland, Part 2

[Part One here.] Wherever you look, you come face-to-face with the Other. Other race, other religion, other sex, other age, other individual… you name it. Reactions to the Other are complex and often self-contradictory: they run the gamut from instinctive loathing to fascinated attraction. The same person may be viciously hostile to, say, Indian immigrants, [...]

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