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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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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Opinion Donald Trump says he foresees an ‘everlasting peace’ — Immanuel Kant would have found the flaws in that vision
Kant's essay 'Toward Perpetual Peace' lays out conditions that neither Israel nor Hamas could ever meet
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
A witless and bewildering protest of the Israel Philharmonic in Paris brought out the worst of the left and right
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Opinion John Roberts will not save us — but we might just able to save ourselves
Constitutional law scholar Leah Litman applies her strict scrutiny to what she sees as an increasingly 'lawless' Supreme Court
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Culture Satire on ‘Saturday Night Live’ used to be a deadly weapon; is it still enough in the Trump era?
An exhibit of the papers of Lorne Michaels offers sobering insights about the limits of humor
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Opinion If an antisemite chops down a memorial tree in Paris, how do we know it makes a sound?
The destruction of an olive tree planted in honor of murder victim Ilan Halimi has drawn widespread condemnation but little press
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Opinion Should we fear that Trump is this generation’s Neville Chamberlain? In a word, yes.
Trump's summit with Putin mirrors Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in stunning and sobering ways
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Opinion Which school of philosophy provides the best guide for how to think about Gaza?
When it comes to the horrors of the war in the MIddle East, neither Moses nor Immanuel Kant is sufficient
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Yiddish צוויי ייִדישע דיכטער וואָס באַזינגען נאַטור פֿון רײַסן ביז אַפֿריקעTwo Yiddish poets who celebrated nature from Belarus to Africa
מע האָט לעצטנס איבערגעזעצט צוויי וויכטיקע ווערק פֿון די ווילנער פּאָעטן משה קולבאַק און אַבֿרהם סוצקעװער
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