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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...
From the Editors: The Spectator Needs to Raise Its Editorial Standards
Cover from an 1880 volume of the Spectator’s issues. Among the many newsworthy events that hit Columbia’s campus last fall, one incident stood out—not because...
Issue 18 Letter
A Paradise After the Fall? by Nick Serpe, Issue 17 Summer 2010 I am deeply grateful to Nick Serpe for his very perceptive review in The Current’s Summer 2010...
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...
An Apology for the German Socrates
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity by Shmuel Feiner Yale University Press, 248 pages The intellectual life of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)...
William Styron and a Discourse on Madness
Off the Shelf: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron Modern Library, 96 pages William Styron’s memoir Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness...