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Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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What took him so long?

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Written by our Cassandra circa 1950

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Huckabee identifies as a "Christian Zionist"--i.e. a medieval crusader, albeit one who pays Jews to do his god's dirty work

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Consider that back when Cuba was an American protectorate, the second (but really first) most powerful entity on the island was the American ambassador.

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forward.com/fast-forward... Is a "Christian Zionist" what would have been called a medieval crusader, albeit one who pays Jews to do his god's dirty work?

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No Other Land the Sequel

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www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth [is] that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed. Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism

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Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM

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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma... Succinct statement of where we are now: Adam Shatz writes, "On 21 March, Armstrong and the board of trustees effectively buried the Columbia University of C. Wright Mills and Richard Hofstadter, of Edward Said, Barbara Fields and Eric Foner."

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Let us not forget Cuomo's grotesque attempt to lure Amazon to Queens (promising among other things to rename himself "Amazon" Cuomo). Thwarting this was one of AOC's first victories.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Mann & Yona write that "The new definition of antisemitism imposes a straitjacket of Zionist identity on American Jews" Anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitism. What is antisemitic is the assumption that all Jews are necessarily Zionist.

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The title alone! A great bardic poem (cited in Everything is Now).

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www.versobooks.com/products/297... Coming, May 27

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www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... "A death spiral waiting to happen" (I got a graduate degree there in 1980, I teach there now)

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www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma... Dead and resurrected

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www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... or why don't Israelis read the Book of Ezekhiel?

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www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Netanyahu on X: In Israel, as the US "when a strong right-wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system." Haaretz: Maybe if Israel were actually led by a leftist deep state, more Israelis and Palestinians would be alive today.

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Q: "Who has the right to have rights?" [as posed by Hannah Arendt] A: "It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here."

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jacobin.com/2025/03/khal...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Trump's 2016 campaign channeled Andrew Dice Clay. j-hoberman.com/2016/11/the-...

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Here’s J Hoberman on the stupendous “Henry Fonda For President.” Best movie I’ve seen this year. www.artforum.com/columns/j-ho...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n... Trump to New York: Drop Dead

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Now available for preorder - Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film

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Must read: Max Weber anticipated Trump.

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www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Putin has the same strategy as does, mutatis mutandis, flood-the-zone Trump

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www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/15/t... Meanwhile in Eric Adamsville...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Sign of integrity?

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www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025... Deportation next?

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Schumer is about to publish a book about anti-Semitism. In fact, he's just written the book--not just a shonda but a shonda fur di goyim. forward.com/opinion/3988...

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The use value of Zionist-defined anti-Semitism in Trump's US and Netanyahu's Israel. "As pawns in a larger game being run by Christian Zionists (who often happen to be white supremacists), the safety of American Jews, Zionist or not, is hardly the endgame."

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