Arno Rosenfeld: Why Democrats could excuse Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo, but not his alleged abuse of women
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was, for a moment, a Democratic golden boy—an oyster farmer and Marine veteran whose rough-hewn authenticity thrilled progressive strategists. Then came the Reddit posts, the Nazi-linked chest tattoo he claimed not to understand, and finally the rape allegation…
Broken Pencil, Broken PEN: Hal Niedzviecki on the PEN America scandal
In a move the editor certainly knew would be unpopular among the organization's core audience, PEN America, earlier this month, published an article about the isolation and exclusion of Jewish and Israeli writers. Shortly afterwards, the organization's president resigned, and PEN America issued a s…
Are there any straight women left?
We live in a time where desiring men makes you reactionary, prudish, conventional, or even ick. What’s a modern woman to do?
Lori Wilson reads Are there any straight women left?
by Phoebe Maltz Bovy.
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Marnie Salsky: Documenting Toronto's Jewish community before, and after, Oct. 7
Between 2018 and 2022, Marnie Salsky travelled around Toronto, taking photographs of her Jewish community. The project was meant to capture the diversity and reality of Jewish life in a rapidly changing world. But then Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the entire tenor of her pr…
Meg Keene: In search of Jewish authors to publish
Back in April, bestselling author Meg Keene came on The Jewish Angle—with some reluctance—to talk about what she saw as a growing problem for Jewish writers in mainstream publishing. She spoke about being quietly pressured from agents, publishers and industry insiders to change Jewish characters' n…
Against Heteropessimism | Maiden Mother Matriarch 211
There is a certain kind of caricature of women that pops up in cultural commentary right now. Modern women, we are told, are inundated with male attention at all times, and all of it is deeply unwelcome. According to this view, says Phoebe Maltz Bovy, “straight women merely put up with men’s advanc…
Woke 1 Was Crazy. Is Woke 2 Antisemitic? with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Phoebe discusses her recent essay, "Woke 2, antisemitism by another name." Did Oct. 7 and the Gaza war create a common foe for the broad left to unify against—namely, the Jews? Or has the second Trump administration supplanted Israel as the American left's enemy number one? What does the John Galli…
Aliza Luft: How the Catholic Church reassured French Jews before the Holocaust—and failed them
Before Nazi Germany invaded France, Catholic leaders had publicly condemned racist ideology. Jews felt reassured by this, and the fact that they enjoyed deep roots in the republic and reason to believe their institutions would defend them from the Nazis. Under Vichy, that confidence became misguide…
Archie Matlow: A queer awakening to leftist antisemitism
Rachel “Archie” Matlow spent years feeling more at home in Toronto’s queer, progressive left than in organized Jewish life. They're trans, didn't fit in at Jewish summer camp, and ultimately found refuge among their fellow left-wing creatives, podcasters and journalists. But after Oct. 7, 2023, thi…
Daniel Sugarman: UK Greens declare Zionism as racism
After the federal Canadian government quietly adjusted its public-facing language to include anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism, Britain’s Green Party took the opposite route: they formally adopted a policy declaring Zionism as racism. The decision has caused a loud rift within the party, with …
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