Marc Estrin
TWO JEWISH WALLS
Oct 8, 2016
TWO JEWISH WALLS
Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Something there is that does. People there are that do not love a wall. People there are that do.
One of them is Benjamin Netanyahu, the...
Herein a sequence of interesting exchanges with the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I suppose I was asked to contribute because of my novel, Golem Song.
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Back in Feb, 2016, I was asked...
THE F-35 AS GOLDEN CALF
Sep 25, 2016
Below is a commentary I wrote on a piece published in the Vermont Digger, attacking the F-35 -- which will be based here in Burlington -- as a colossal political boondoggle. I begin with the article....
COCKY DOODY POLITICS and WORLD AFFAIRS
Sep 25, 2016
Reading through Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s minutely sourced and annotated book, The Untold History of the United States, I was struck by the language and thought-structures enunciated by our...
The best teacher I ever had was a philosopher-historian named Hans Meyerhoff. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, he held forth on "Existentialism in Literature" in the largest hall on the UCLA...