About Michael Weiss

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

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

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

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

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

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