A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Opinion How ‘the most hated man in France’ became Trump ahead of his time
Jean-Marie Le Pen's racism and xenophobia changed the political reality in the land of liberty, equality and fraternity
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Opinion I’ve studied Alfred Dreyfus, he was a moral prophet — Benjamin Netanyahu, you are no Alfred Dreyfus
Comparing himself to a persecuted leader, Netanyahu displays an astounding chutzpah
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Opinion As Israel faces off against France, the true battle will be taking place off the field
Thousands of police will be on hand for a soccer match in a stadium that will be less than half-full
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Opinion George Santayana was wrong — remembering the past won’t always protect us
In these dark times, historians have one deceptively simple and immensely difficult job to perform
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Culture How a brilliant Jewish philosopher anticipated the cult of Donald Trump
Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay on art in the age of mechanical reproduction looks particularly prescient today
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Politics How sci-fi visionary Isaac Asimov foresaw the madness of our forthcoming election
In Asimov's short story 'Franchise,' a super-computer runs elections and only one man gets to vote
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Opinion Allies at odds, Netanyahu and Emmanuel Macron have more in common than they’d like to admit
Critics drawing unfavorable comparisons between the two leaders and their predecessors ignore key historical context
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
Neil Postman's 1984 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' anticipated our image-saturated, post-literate world
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