Other languages   Français  Türkçe  русский  Deutsch  हिन्दी  简体中文  Arabic                The Intimate Embrace Between Liberalism and the Far Right: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2023) NOVEMBER 16, 2023 For Comrade N. Sankaraiah (1922–2023) Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. One of the curiosities of our time is…

Interviewed by Edwina Burness & Jerry Griswold ISSUE 86, WINTER 1982 THE PARIIS REVIEW JULIE ANDREWS, WALT DISNEY, PAMELA TRAVERS P. L. Travers’s terraced house in Chelsea has a pink door, the color of the cover of Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane. In the hall is an antique rocking horse. Her study is at the top of the…

BY MARIA POPOVA The Greek polymath Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 BC) ignited the golden age of mathematics with the development of numerical logic and the discovery of his namesake theorem of geometry, which furnished the world’s first foothold toward the notion of scientific proof and has been etched into the mind of every schoolchild in the millennia…

A Small Boy and Israel BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Rembrandt, Abraham’s Sacrifice, 1655. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Understanding the October 7 Hamas attack The numbers are grim, and the details are worse. 1,400 killed (1100 civilians, 300 troops) and 240 taken hostage. The victims at the Supernova Sukkot music festival were just kids — sweet…

Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. Of course, when a ceasefire comes, Israel will declare victory. Don’t believe it. Israel has foolishly started another war it cannot win.