‘How I Stopped Being a Jew” is the strangest book that I have ever reviewed. I used to grant that distinction to the memoir by the psychic who claimed that aliens healed her anal cyst. But this one is ...
“Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to a privileged caste which creates intolerable injustices around itself?” the Israeli historian ...
The quality of French intellectual life has plummeted, argues an author who targets such recent media stars as Michel Houellebecq and Alain Finkielkraut On 16 November 1980, Louis Althusser strangled ...
The prominent Israeli historian Ilan Pappe said, “It is important to understand that the Zionists who established the State of Israel were secular until the 1970s, and their goal was to modernize ...
This coming Monday, 9 November, I’ll be chairing an “In conversation with the New Statesman” event at Borders, on the Charing Cross Road in London, with Professor Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Philip Dodd reviews the revival of the 1975 musical A Chorus Line, interviews the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, and discusses the significance of old age. Show more A Chorus Line, with music by ...