It may have taken the might of federal lawsuits, but the supposed gem of American universities has finally decided that antisemitism might just be a bad thing to allow on campus. In a settlement of two federal lawsuits, Harvard University agreed to change its policies to better prevent antisemitic harassment on campus. That includes a […]

It may be hyperbole to claim that podcasts determined the winner of the 2024 election, but few observers who paid attention to how aggressively both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance used the medium deny it changed votes, particularly among young men, who overwhelmingly broke for Trump. But for as much is said […]

In December 2020, then-President-elect Joe Biden was very concerned about what outgoing President Donald Trump would do in his final days in office. Specifically, as he told CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time, Biden was worried that Trump would use the pardoning power to insulate himself, his family, and his associates from any comeuppance for […]

Mischa Berlinski’s first two books were richly inventive affairs, yet within their fictionality could be discerned the impress of facts — sights seen, stories acquired, local color absorbed. Fieldwork, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award, was narrated by an American reporter named Mischa Berlinski, who drew on his creator’s time working in Thailand […]