About Michael Weiss
Introducing Tablet Magazine
As a former Jewcer, I’m pleased to call your attention to Tablet Magazine, the new and newsier incarnation of Nextbook. We launched at midnight last night after four not-so-grueling months of redesign and reconceptualization. (Just to preempt any confusion: Nextbook … Read More
Charles Freeman and His Curious Defenders
The controversy that has engulfed that now all-but-scuttled appointment of Charles Freeman to the post of National Intelligence Council leader is, I think, a bellwether moment for what today passes for “progressive” opinion. The fashionable charge, leveled by many leftish … Read More
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge Saturday
Jewcy contributor Josh Strawn and his band Blacklist are performing this Saturday at Mercury Lounge in NYC: 217 East Houston Street. They go on at 10:30. My interview with Josh, another good Eustonista, is available here. And embedded for your … Read More
In Iraq For Years To Come
Eli Lake, whose code name among Al Qaeda operatives is "The Jew" (I kid you not), provides further evidence that a U.S. military presence shall indeed persist in Iraq, well beyond the nominal exit date set forth in the Status … Read More
Change You Can’t Quite Articulate
A long time ago, in a decade called the 90’s, there was a brave and brilliant little website known as Suck.com, which featured daily essays — presented in a charming but sometimes hard to read "snaking" format like this — … Read More
Obama, Chastened
John Heilemann has a characteristically shrewd essay up at New York magazine, explaining how Obama’s losses thus far are mostly his own fault: The Republican Mau-Mauing of the stimulus package has reinforced a persistent critique from Obama’s left: that his … Read More
Poem of the Day: “Office Friendships”
Eve is madly in love with Hugh And Hugh is keen on Jim. Charles is in love with very few And few are in love with him. Myra sits typing notes of love With romantic pianist’s fingers. Dick turns his … Read More
If You Were Looking for An Open-and-Shut Case of Antisemitism…
You could do worse than consult the Catalunya government’s recent decision to cancel Barcelona’s ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day because of Israel’s attack on Gaza: Over 30,000 people marched in Catalunya’s streets in support of Hamas, during the three-week … Read More