A professor at the University of Houston and the Women’s Institute of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Opinion Winds of change are in the air in Hungary and at the Vatican. Will they reach as far as Israel?
Viktor Orban's defeat and Pope Leo's homilies promise a return to common decency that Benjamin Netanyahu is still resisting
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Film & TV He committed murder today. Or maybe yesterday. He doesn’t know.
A new film adaptation of Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' finds the world as strange and absurd as it ever was.
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Opinion This Jewish philosopher knows our politics are absurd — and why that’s a good thing
In his underappreciated essays, Thomas Nagel counsels us against taking the world, our ourselves, too seriously
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Opinion Benjamin Disraeli once saved Britain’s monarchy — the current one may be beyond repair
Today's crises at Buckingham Palace have created problems that even Britain's first Jewish prime minister could not have solved
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Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
An unsettling memo from a Texas university recalls France's lurch into authoritarianism during WWII
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Opinion Hannah Arendt could have anticipated the Trump administration’s lies in Minnesota — and elsewhere
The Jewish philosopher’s essay on ‘Lying in Politics’ applies as much to current politics as it did to Vietnam
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Opinion Drunk with power, Donald Trump follows the dictates of Athenian commanders — and a certain Jewish philosopher
For both Athenians and Americans, acts of hubris lead inevitably to great tragedy
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Opinion This Jewish philosopher would have called out the Trump administration’s b.s. in Minneapolis
Harry Frankfurt's landmark bestseller 'On Bullshit' is all too applicable to the excuses given for Renee Good's killer
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