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What’s Wrong with the ‘New Antisemitism’ Project Rebecca Ruth Gould, Medium 1 Apr 24 Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ (Pluto Books, 2022), Antony Lerman examines what happened to antisemitism during the past five decades. How did the effort to define antisemitism become aligned with the silencing of Israel-critical speech?…

The struggle in Israel-Palestine lacks a sense of inclusivity, like in South Africa, that aims to take over and transform the state into a democracy for all its citizens.

<strong>Letters: </strong>Readers respond to David Davis’s article about Slapps – strategic lawsuits against public participation – and their threat to freedom of expression

A review of The Five Health Frontiers, by Christopher Thomas (Pluto Books) The NHS is seen as the nearest thing to socialism in Britain (“From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs”), its “father”, Aneurin Bevan, wanting to “universalise the best”. Its universalism was soon under attack from Labour itself, with prescription charges introduced in 1951, provoking Bevan’s resignation. The one shilling charge (£0.05 = £1.30 in real terms) has now increased...

The Times. Arts Dan Grossman When I first saw the wording for the job description, I thought back to the time when the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields seemed to be making progress towards creating a truly 21st-century museum.  It was July 2019. Kelli Morgan, the museum’s new associate curator, was taking me on a tour of the American galleries. She had just completed a partial rotation of artwork in the galleries. Her most striking choice was to place the pain...

Editors note: On December 8, the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) hosted an Arts+Ethics webinar with author Dan Hicks. In my capacity as an IAHI research assistant, I wrote a preview article — on which this article is based — as a preview for this event. It first appeared in the IAHI blog on Nov. 6.  In the African galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, you’ll find a brass plaque depicting a warrior, dating from between the 16th and the 18...