Everything Is Broken
“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”
“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”
Alana Newhouse Tablet Jan 2021 40min Permalink
The mystery behind who currently operates The Drudge Report.
Armin Rosen Tablet Nov 2020 Permalink
Seeing Hamilton with Barack Obama.
David Samuels Tablet Jun 2016 35min Permalink
The story of one man’s encounter with fate.
Pini Dunner Tablet Sep 2018 40min Permalink
The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...
Jacob Siegel Tablet Nov 2016 20min Permalink
Leonard Cohen’s 2 A.M. set at the disastrous Isle of Wight festival, 1970.
Liel Leibovitz Tablet Jan 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and de facto campaign manager.
Chris Pomorski Tablet Oct 2016 30min Permalink
“At 54, after 30 years of marriage and two of loneliness, I went online to find a man and found Dean.”
A three-part essay on love, loss, and what comes in between.
Esther Schor Tablet Feb 2016 35min Permalink
Al Seckel held legendary parties in the 1980s and 90s, with attendees ranging from Slash to Francis Crick. He later became a collector of optical illusions and gave a TED talk on the topic. He may have also misled and defrauded many of the people he came into contact with.
Mark Oppenheimer Tablet Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Playing with a disabled boy on a summer afternoon.
Michael Chabon Tablet Jan 2015 15min Permalink
Who is Shmuley Boteach, former reality TV star and author of Kosher Sex?
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet Jul 2014 25min Permalink
The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet May 2014 30min Permalink
“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”
David Samuels, Art Spiegelman Tablet Nov 2013 25min Permalink
A scholarly dispute devolves into criminal impersonation.
Batya Ungar-Sargon Tablet Jan 2013 10min Permalink
A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?
Menachem Kaiser Tablet Nov 2012 20min Permalink
A doctor and a rabbi try to find ways to understand the world, and God, and one another.
"The rabbi pulled out some books. She talked about Jacob wrestling the angel. She talked about Heschel and the kernel of wonder as a seedling that could grow into awe. She tugged at her braid and told a Hasidic story about how at the end of one's life, it is said that you will need to apologize to God for the ways you have not lived."
Aimee Bender Tablet Jan 2012 Permalink
Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.
Eli Sanders Tablet Jun 2012 Permalink
A profile of fashion designer Nudie Cohn, who made clothing for Elvis, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and others.
Jason Diamond Tablet May 2012 Permalink
Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.
Akiva Gottlieb Tablet May 2012 Permalink
Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. ...he published his first book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26. Over the past 40 years, he has made provocative and often deeply original contributions to multiple academic fields, including military strategy, Roman history, Byzantine history, and economics.
David Samuels, Edward Luttwak Tablet Sep 2011 Permalink
On a group of teenage believers raised in settlements on the West Bank:
They say it takes one generation to found a new language. These girls are a new language, believing that they belong to the land on which they were born, and sponsored by the government they despise, which pays for their roads and electricity.
Elizabeth Rubin Tablet Sep 2011 Permalink
A two-part account of the recent elections in Uganada and the unlikely candidacy of Rabbi Gershom Sizomu Wambedde, the leader of a small community of Ugandan Jews.
Matthew Fishbane Tablet Mar 2011 30min Permalink
A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.
Allison Hoffman Tablet Feb 2011 Permalink