Only a Jew
Israel is the screen onto which the Left projects its own anxieties.
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Articles by Benjamin Balint
Out of Egypt
Our debt against Moses.
The Book of Norman
Benjamin Balint looks at Norman Podhoretz's Making It fifty years later.
The Baton and the Jackboot
The music of the Third Reich.
Building Jerusalem
Architecture as interpretation in Jerusalem.
Here There Is No Why
Benjamin Balint looks at the life of Primo Levi.
The Nazi Jurist
A review of Carl Schmitt: A Biography, by Reinhard Mehring.
The Rise and Fall of the New Republic
A review of Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America, edited by Franklin Foer.
Blasphemer
A review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir, by Salman Rushdie
Sickness Unto Death
A review of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, by Robert S. Wistrich
In the Beginning
Reviewing a new history of the first Arab-Israeli War.
Spinning Spinoza
Bringing the heretic back into the Jewish fold.
God and Harold at Yale
A review of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, by Harold Bloom