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The Ancient Jewish Wisdom Behind a $5 Billion Company
Daniel Lubetzky of ‘Shark Tank’ talks about ‘Pirkei Avot.’
Shilo Brooks
51M
Letter to the Editor re: ‘I Wrote a Book About Censorship. Then People Tried to Censor It.’
My response to Jacob Siegel’s piece in ‘The Free Press.’
Renée DiResta
The Death of the Pocket Paperback
As the distributors retire the pocket paperback, we are reminded of what we lose when the printed page goes too.
Andrew Cusack
I Went to See ‘The Drama’ with My Friend Who Survived a School Shooting
Plus: Why is everyone obsessed with Belle Burden’s divorce memoir?
Suzy Weiss
Neal Stephenson on AI, Rome, and How Civilizations Decline
Why the prophetic sci-fi author looks to ancient Rome to understand the future.
Shilo Brooks
47M
Coleman Hughes: What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
In his new book, America's most famous anti-racist calls politicians who support border control ‘neo-Nazis’ and puts scare quotes around ‘crisis’ when…
Coleman Hughes
The Jewish Volunteers Who Returned to Nazi Europe
In 1944, Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine parachuted into occupied Europe. Their official task was to help the Allies. Their real hope was to…
Matti Friedman
The Two Types of People Who Never Find Happiness
Arthur Brooks explains how to stop wasting your life.
Shilo Brooks
51M
The Bitter Aftertaste of Roald Dahl
As ‘Giant’ brings Dahl to Broadway, it also revives the antisemitic ideas he espoused.
Michael Coren
Hunting Humans for Sport
Former Navy SEAL sniper Jack Carr breaks down ‘The Most Dangerous Game.’
Shilo Brooks
53M
Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Before the Oscars this weekend, read ‘Play It as It Lays.’
Shilo Brooks
53M
Is the Iran War Winding Down—or Ramping Up? Plus. . .
Matthew Pottinger, Francis Fukuyama, and Aaron MacLean on the latest in Iran. Plus: Kat Rosenfield on that viral polyamory memoir. Arthur Brooks on the…
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