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The Perils of Pauline Kael

"Remember how it was in the '60s and '70s, when movies were hot and we were hot?"  Perhaps.  One fellow film critic remembers that period—and the players in Kael's orbit—quite differently.       Getting Iran Wrong

Why have intellectuals from Foucault to Žižek found it so very difficult to see dictatorships for what they are, or to summon up the moral clarity to oppose them?Israel’s Pulp Fiction

Countercultural publishing thrived in Israel's first decades, with Westerns, espionage thrillers, science fiction, and what might be seen as the country's first literary responses to the Holocaust.The Niche Yeshiva

A secular yeshiva, an academic yeshiva, an environmental yeshiva? Israel is seeing the creation of several pilot programs geared toward ever-slimmer niche communities.After the Fall

In the eyes of two Egyptian thinkers, the Tahrir revolution was never democratic or liberal—and it was never in the interests of the middle class.The Army’s Private Sector

As trust in the civilian side of the Israeli government declines, the IDF increasingly contracts out non-military services like food and medical care—at its own peril.In the Court of the Tzadik

Accompanying Shlomo Carlebach to a prayer service in a Sufi meeting house.Falkenhayn’s Feat

The Jews of Palestine owed their survival during World War I to a German army general, who prevented the Turks from doing to the Jews what they had already done to the Armenians.V

Archeologists are stumped by mysterious stone carvings, made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem.