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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Mstislav Rostropovich Dies

NYT:  But Mr. Rostropovich became famous well beyond musical circles, as a symbol of artistic…

My Only Right-Wing Sex Fantasy

I've never understood the claim made by some liberal males of my acquaintance that they'd…

Pentagon Doublethink

Like a good Strausso-Trotskyist neocon, I deplore moral equivalence of any shade, particularly that tenebrous,…

You’re Not a Rebel, You’re Psychotic!

The Onion has a way with rubbing up against uncomfortable truths at the least comfortable…

Hudna, We Hardly Knew Ye

Either Hamas's political leadership values its hold on parliamentary power, or it does not. Bet…

You No Like-A Da Sauce?

This almost beats "Headless Body Found in Topless Bar":  HORRIFIED diners watched in shock as…

Lee Siegel Worth Reading

All right, all right, let's just get this over with: How strange for one man…

On Difficult Poetry II

I was going to reply in kind to BeccaB's excellent comment to my earlier post,…