MSNBC is difficult to watch these days, but so is Fox News. The warring ideologies are so comfortable in their alarmism, and their certitude about being the noble, much put-upon victims of the other ...
Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, even agitated, in the way ...
Sunday’s New York Magazine featured a profile of The New Republic's controversial editor and partial owner, Martin Peretz. Benjamin Wallace-Wells chronicles the path that created Peretz's "belligerent ...
The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left, Right, and Center, by Martin Peretz, Wicked Son, 336 pages. The first thing most people remember about Martin Peretz, the longtime owner and editor ...
In his new memoir, The Controversialist, Martin Peretz offers a gritty, propulsive, and fascinating account of his career. (Via Jewish News Syndicate) The art critic Harold Rosenberg once referred to ...
In his New York Times column today, Bill Kristol tries to make the case that the reason that “the media” doesn’t like Sarah Palin is that... Whatever. Kristol doesn’t actually give any evidence or ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Earlier this summer, when Helen Thomas said Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and return to Germany, among other ...
Irony has seldom been more glaring than in Martin Peretz’s claim, in his review of Dara Horn’s “People Love Dead Jews” (Bookshelf, Oct. 5), that “many of the ultraorthodox, the very pious, the ...
In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...
Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, even agitated, in the way ...
MSNBC is difficult to watch these days, but so is Fox News. The warring ideologies are so comfortable in their alarmism, and their certitude about being the noble, much put-upon victims of the other ...