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On the unacknowledged legacy of violent Jewish nationalist Meir Kahane

It’s like kryptonite for responsible news organizations: the stronger their piety to journalistic ethics and the ideal of objectivity, the more vulnerable they are to accusations made in bad faith.

Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era. Robert W. Klein/AP Photo Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks onto the platform at the University of California’s Greek Theatre in Berkeley, December 7, 1964. I’m about three-quarters of the way through Louis Menand’s 880-page The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, and I lack the vocabulary to say how impressive I find its scholarly range and ambition ...

Altercation: Why Journalism Isn’t Really Covering the Threat of Fascism Objectivity has no bias in favor of the truth. Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA via AP Images House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Biden, May 12, 2021. A (not bad) New York Times headline informs us that “‘A Perpetual Motion Machine’: How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws.” But a better summary of what the story tells us would be: “Our democracy is being destroyed and the groundwork for fascism is being laid by our political...

Palestinians take part in a prtoest in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, in Deir Al-Balah in the center of Gaza Strip on May 08, 2021. More than 170 Palestinians have been injured after Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and dispersed worshippers elsewhere in occupied East Jerusalem, as weeks-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians over Jerusalem soared again. Photo by Ashraf Amra. (c) APA Images. Last week the Guardian newspaper in London expressed shame over one of its worst errors of judgment: that in 1917 it supported and facilitated the Balfour Declarat...