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Articles Written by: LEON WIESELTIER
'He is barometrically interesting." This was Irving Howe's judgment of a professor of literature whose prominence we were mischievously discussing. We were praising the guilelessness of barometers. They come right out and say it. The same candor about ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 11 Oct 2008
One of America's quadrennial rituals is liberal shock. Again the Democrats are surprised by the brutality of the Republicans. They are lying. Yes, they are. They want very much to win. So should we lie, too? "We" already have. (John McCain did not say ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 25 Sep 2008
One of the most troublesome qualities of reason is that it is not always reasonable. The man of reason is committed to follow only where deliberation leads, but the reasonable man has other commitments. His rationality answers to more than itself. ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 26 Aug 2008
Once upon a time, before the panicked society-wide attempt to expel contingency from American life, existence was organized, or left sufficiently unorganized, for the refreshments of serendipity. The domination of the days and the years by logistics ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 14 Aug 2008
But there are people beyond the glossy metropolis who have a proper claim on our pity, and for reasons that have nothing to do with the forms and meanings of satire. All thinking persons must agree that the costliness of oil is good news, because it ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 29 Jul 2008
I, paragraphless, want to argue that in diary piece Wieseltier ("W") does not know what he is about: 1. he glaringly defies what he appears to have set out to do; and 2. the content of his musings is fatuous beneath all the high sounding, dialectical ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 10 Jun 2008
I'm empty. No, not really empty; I was trained not to be that. The battle of ideas is never over, is it? The responsible citizen, the responsible critic: they are sleepless creatures. Last week I was in Jerusalem for a few days, and I am brimming with ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 28 May 2008
I was tired of hearing Jeremiah Wright, so I started reading him. This did not improve matters. In his books I found mainly (in the words of one of his admirers) "Africentric Christian manhood," a panic about the situation of the African American male ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 14 May 2008
On Sept. 10, 2001, nobody in America seemed to know anything about Islam. On Sept. 12, 2001, everybody seemed to know everything about Islam. Well, not quite; but it is really a wonder the way the arcane particulars of an alien civilization now trip ...
Last week was a good week for Herbert Marcuse. Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer Prize and Karl Marx was published on the op-ed page of The New York Times, and in German. In America, revolution is a career move. Marcuse thought this was the bad news, but it is ...
From LEON WIESELTIER, The New Republic, 24 Apr 2008
