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Can Wieseltier, D.C.’s Big Mullah, Have It Both Ways?

People have taken to calling it “The Second Holocaust Debate”-the polemical fracas that has followed upon my recent column with

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Can’t anybody just savor a metaphor anymore?

Can’t anybody just savor a metaphor anymore? This past weekend, John Leonard wrote a scathing takedown of Dale Peck’s volume

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New Republic Critic Tumbles in Blog-land: My ‘Dumb Mistake’

“I made a dumb mistake, and I’m very sorry I did it. I took the blogosphere’s bait, and I stooped

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Judt at War

“I’m struck when I observe the Jewish community in the United States, especially in New York,” said Tony Judt last

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Ali Abunimah on One State in Israel/Palestine

I caught Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian/American activist and author of a new book calling for a single Arab and Jewish

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Be Like Leon (Wieseltier)

Many, many intellectuals are now being called on to perform a backflip on Iraq. Alas, few have attempted it, and

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Barry Gewen, Editor at New York Times Book Review, Throws a Rock at Leon...

Barry Gewen, one of the editors on the staff of The New York Times Book Review, has written a fierce

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Mob Hits for April 10, 2008

Hath Not a Jew Ears? New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier attempts to answer to a question you’ve probably never

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Wieseltier-amis: Post-game

An incendiary essay by New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier about Martin Amis’ recent essay collection on 9/11 and the

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Trash Me, Baby!

Buzz Bissinger is the author of the Texas high-school football book Friday Night Lights and Prayer for the City, which

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Leon Wieseltier To Youth: Drop Dead

Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic‘s answer to a question no one asked, files a Washington Diarist column this week in

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Gabriel Snyder Takes Over The New Republic

Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltier are leaving The New Republic.

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Longtime Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Is Lovingly Remembered at Moving Memorial

Longtime Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Is Lovingly Remembered at Moving Memorial

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The Atlantic Hires Former TNR Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier has been hired by The Atlantic as a contributing editor and critic.

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What Was Leon Wieseltier Thinking?

If you made it at least 984 words into Leon Wieseltier's long, seemingly incomprehensible rant against technology, "Among the Disrupted," then you may have noticed—just barely—that it was also a...

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