Sublime

The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.

nebbish,

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.

I don’t care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It’s in my ex-wife’s tote bag.”

civility, trust, and a collective sense of purpose seem absent.

homeland.

Anything that allows the audience to access how you see the world is accurate, even if the information is wrong.

“What the gentiles say is less important than what the Jews do,”