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 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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Opinion A Jewish philosopher’s warnings expose the injustice of Trump’s attack on Venezuela
Michael Walzer's 'Just and Unjust Wars' is as applicable to Venezuela as it was to Vietnam
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Opinion In Brigitte Bardot, a complicated legacy of movie stardom, activism, xenophobia and antisemitism
Bardot, who has died at 91, lurched to the right after she retired from motion pictures in 1973
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
In our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible
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Culture Shunned by the right, targeted by the left, Eva Illouz confronts antisemitism masquerading as academic freedom
A Dutch school has apologized for disinviting the renowned scholar, but the stench of the controversy remains
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