Michael Weiss

Michael is an editor of Nextbook and a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, Reason, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, City Journal and Standpoint. His blog is Snarksmith.

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Seth Rogen’s Dizzying Middles

As a high-haired porker in high school, I have an innate sympathy with guys like…

The Pyrrhic Victory of 1967

There are now two competing revisionist narratives of how the 1967 war between Israel and…

Syriana

According to Haaretz:  The Bush administration has given Israel permission to discuss the future of…

James Wood on the Men Who Would Be Prime Minister

France has just elected itself the most philo-American president since… well, since Lafayette, who never…

“We Must Open Men’s Eyes, Not Tear Them Out”

It's a bad sign that Anthony Grafton mistakenly refers to Tom Stoppard's brilliant drama about…

Schickel Tickle

In one of the only hilarious essays George Orwell ever wrote, he anatomizes the sad,…

Rudy’s Abortion Gambit

Mike Kinsley nails it: [G]iuliani's story line about standing firm would have been more impressive…

Meet the New Loyalty Oath

What else to call this rebarbative, bullying demand that Israeli universities swear their opposition to…