Andrew Paul
By Andrew Paul
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Culture Stan Lee And The Death Of A Jewish-American Idealism
A friend of mine once said there are three unarguably American creations: Baseball, Jazz, and Comic Books. Jews historically had a hand in all of them, but thanks to geniuses like Stan Lee, the latter is what we can claim as truly ours. Stan Lee’s passing marks the end of an era not only for…
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Opinion Trump’s Shameful Anti-Semitic Dogwhistle Puts Him In Bad Company
It’s understandable — hell, perhaps necessary — to inure yourself while reading most of Donald’s morning bile on Twitter. Some days are easier to ignore it than others, especially when more pressing atrocities are at hand, like the theft of a Supreme Court seat. Today’s particular Presidential sewage deserves at least a momentary pause: “The…
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Opinion Will Michael Cohen Unleash A Torrent Of Anti-Semitism By Turning Against Trump?
I can already hear the dog whistles. New York Lawyer. Shylock. Judas. Michael (((Cohen))). Whether we would have chosen him or not, the President’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who pled guilty on Tuesday to evading personal income taxes, making an unlawful corporate campaign contribution and six other counts, is a Jew. This unfortunately makes him…
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Culture Should We Say Kaddish For The South?
For whatever reason, I have attended only one funeral in my life, and it was for a Holocaust survivor. After liberation, Gilbert Metz made his way to Natchez, Mississippi, of all places, and soon to New Orleans and Tulane University, an education he paid for by window washing. He served with distinction in the Korean…
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