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 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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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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