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Cloak and Pen: Harriman, the Government, & Sovietology
By Maddie Wolberg The start of the Cold War heralded something new for American academia. Fear of Soviet intentions and a desire to understand what was happening...
Refuge Rethought: Building a South Sudanese Kibbutz
By Shira Poliak When thousands of Jews began immigrating to then-Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, few were prepared to confront the...
Hit and Run
In this year’s Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers strafed their way to victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers behind the otherworldly play of quarterback Aaron...
Stade Demba Diop
August Thirtieth, 2011 In Dakar, Senegal, in the quarter of Liberté, a man cuts my hair in a small room carved into side of Stade Demba Diop. Light brown skin,...
Brooklyn, Steering, and Palestinian Chicken: An Interview with Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a prominent jurist and political critic who has taught at Harvard Law School for over forty years and is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law...
Medium, Message, Examination
The Language by Robert Creeley Locate I love you some- where in teeth and eyes, bite it but take care not to hurt, you want so much so little. Words say everything. I love...
Possibilities & Disappointments: Recent Adventures in Public Art
Sculptor Will Ryman’s recent installation, “The Roses,” takes the form of large hot pink and red flowers blooming cheerfully along the islands that line...
The Making of a Terrorist Plot: How the FBI Shaped the Attempt to Bomb a Bronx Synagogue
Arrests and Convictions On May 20, 2009, four African-American men from Newburgh, N.Y.—David Cromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams IV, and Laguerre Payen—were...
Looking from a Distance: Israeli Local Identity in a Globalized Art Scene
“I don’t want to reduce my work to a derivative or comment on events caused by other people. My goal is to create an event by myself,” says Ran Slavin,...
House of Cards
The Settlers: And the Struggle over the Meaning of Israel by Gadi Taub Yale University Press, 240 pages When discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, intellectuals...