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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Profiling School Shooters?

Katherine S. Newman, a sociologist, has studied the preconditions for school rampages and argues that…

The Problem With Nahal Haredi

It's sort of like the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; it recruits…

Yeah, That’ll Do It

Like the Yale Drama Department's vow to reduce school violence by banning stage weaponry:  Filmmaker…

Tony Wood on Putinshchina

Well, I'll hand this to New Left Review. In the same issue in which they…

The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn

The Bronze Soldier, whose removal from downtown Tallinn last week prompted riots in which hundreds…

Bayrou Decides

David A. Bell says defeated French candidate Francois Bayrou's taking a languorous stroll down easy…

Kristallnacht Redux

A future question: Is it 2007 all over again? Are Jewish intellectuals convening to determine…

Obama’s Dubious God Whisperer

"Interested in the world beyond his own" might have been a cute double entendre for…