Neal Gabler
By Neal Gabler
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Culture Remembering Kirk Douglas — a movie legend like no other
Kirk Douglas died in February of this year at the age of 103. On the occasion of what would have been his 104th birthday, we reprint this tribute to the movie legend who was born Issur Danielovich to immigrant parents. Kirk Douglas was both a movie legend and a Hollywood anomaly: a star divided. Most…
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Culture Remembering Kirk Douglas — a movie legend like no other
Kirk Douglas has passed away at the age of 103. In memory of his astounding career, we reprint this tribute to the movie legend who was born Issur Danielovich to immigrant parents. Kirk Douglas was both a movie legend and a Hollywood anomaly: a star divided. Most stars lodge in our collective consciousness. Douglas, while…
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Film & TV Happy 103rd Birthday To Kirk Douglas
In honor of Kirk Douglas’s 103rd birthday, we reprint this tribute to the movie legend who was born Issur Danielovich to immigrant parents. Kirk Douglas, who turns 100 on December 9, is both a movie legend and a Hollywood anomaly: a star divided. Most stars lodge in our collective consciousness. Douglas, while a first-magnitude star,…
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Culture Forget Politics: America Is Undergoing A Moral Revolution
On any given day, one doesn’t have to look very far — no farther than your newspaper or news broadcast — to see a world spinning wildly out of control, to see every single decent human value trashed and then trashed again, to see egregious behavior treated as if it were normal, to see the…
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Culture Trump Is What Happens When We Forget #NeverForget
To state the painfully and terrifyingly obvious, the world is in a state of severe political and moral crisis — one we haven’t seen since the 1930s. The great postwar consensus, seventy years in the making, in which democracy was predominant and dictatorships had flagged, and in which cooperation replaced conflict, has been largely undone…
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Culture My Father’s Day Regrets
The fellow who came up with the idea of Father’s Day was probably some poor haberdasher hoping to prompt children to buy ties and shirts, if you want to be cynical about it, but also, one hopes, wanting to allow those children to express their appreciation for their Dads. For many of us, however, particularly…
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Culture Is The NFL’S Anti-Semitism Hurting Josh Rosen’s Draft Stock?
Ever since I first embraced the mad romance of sports’ fandom as a boy, a romance that I have never outgrown, I just assumed that the reason there weren’t more Jewish professional athletes is that Jews weren’t very good at sports. A genetic thing. Sure, there was an occasional Hank Greenberg or Al Rosen or…
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Film & TV Is Liberal Jewish Sanctimony Ruining The Oscars?
Chances are, come March 4, you will be ensconced in front of your television watching the 90th edition of the Academy Awards, though chances are there will be fewer people watching this year than last year or the year before that or the year before that, since Oscar ratings have been steadily declining. The Motion…
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