'This article needed a better editor. I don’t know who, if anyone, edited Uri’s story, but they let him publish an article that discredited itself.'

Love this review’s depiction of someone using insider cred and sophistication to leverage support for outsider policies. But enough about its author … bookforum.com/print/3004/jos…

Think you can write a better essay about Foreign Policy than Thomas Friedman? You probably can. Pitch it to me at the International Policy Journal: internationalpolicy.org/publications/a…

New: Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes propublica.org/article/israel…

I may never live down Cynthia Ozick referring to the sentiments expressed in my writing as “hubristic” and “moist”—but I'm glad to have her as a reader!

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NEW Know Your Enemy! We talk to the brilliant and very fun Ronnie Grinberg about her excellent new book, WRITE LIKE A MAN, the New York intellectuals, secular Jewish masculinity, and how anxieties over gender helped forge neoconservatism. Hoo boy!
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“These youngest Zoomers have never known an America where serious people think that the free market can work without significant government intervention.” bookforum.com/print/3004/jos…

SNL skit where some pretentious film critics are having a high level debate about Civil War and Alex Garland keeps breaking in with the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard

Someone in my groupchat just floated the idea of a Chris Arnade character in Civil War and I'm cackling

For the new issue of Bookforum Magazine, I reviewed Joshua Green's 'The Rebels,' which represents the mainstreaming of the left’s narrative on economics, as told through the rise of Warren, Sanders, and AOC bookforum.com/print/3004/jos…

'Wins and losses are tallied in terms of the political consequences for Biden and the professional standing of his advisers. What they might mean for the rest of the world is rarely remarked upon.' David Klion in Books and the Arts on Biden abroad thenation.com/article/politi…

In hindsight, I managed to analogize Gaza to Auschwitz (as portrayed in an Oscar-nominated movie) in NYT without using any of the apparently forbidden terms. theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt…

Perfect combination of writer and subject

After a year of work, my piece on writing and contemporary Hollywood has been released as the cover of the May issue of Harper's. ... harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Didn’t you do a ton to push the 2020-2021 crime surge story to take shots at people demanding police reform

In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

Seeing a lot of REPORTS of an explosion in Tehran and all of them are from idiot bluechecks who don’t cite any reputable news source and are using an old photo

The Israeli military command and control headquarters is placed right in the center of the densely populated stronghold of Tel Aviv.

“The Middle East is quieter than it has been in decades” thenation.com/article/politi…

if you're in DC, this is Mon! I'm really looking forward to talking with Rachel Cohen aka Rachel Cohen