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Leon Wieseltier

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November 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Poem and A Logo: What Walt Whitman Gave The New Republic
November 12, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Reason and the Republic of Opinion
October 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
This Room Is the Most God-Forsaken and Man-Forsaken Place on Earth
October 7, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Nude Breaks the Spell of the News
September 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Obama Against ISIS: The End of Halfheartedness?
August 28, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Obama Was Wrong. The Era of Humanitarian Intervention Is Not Over.
August 6, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Israel and Gaza: A Just and Unjust War
July 16, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Israel at War With Hamas and Itself
The ugly realities of murders and missiles
June 25, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014
Farewell to a master and a friend
June 13, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Defense (Sort of) of Twitter
I don't tweet, but I see why some of you do
June 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Saul Bellow's Ferocious Beliefs
Saul's particular combination of intellectuality and vitality was not paradoxical, it was category-shattering.
May 28, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Why Clinton Chose Maya Angelou to Read at his Inauguration
May 22, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Obama, the Shoah, and Syria
The president's hypocrisy about genocide
May 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
"The Russian War on Ukraine Is One of the Proving Grounds of Principle in Our Time"
Remarks from Kiev
May 12, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Ukraine: Thinking Together
May 8, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
J Street's Rejection Is a Scandal
April 24, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Inconvenience of History
Obama abandons another country to its fate
March 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Emptiness of Data Journalism
Nate Silver could learn a lot from those op-ed columnists he maligns
March 7, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Ukrainian Lessons for an American President
February 16, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Shoah and the Art Market

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