Breaking through
Marcia KupferGetting past the noise of soundbites, slogans, and stale narratives. Reflections on academic discourses and practices of scholarship.
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The Appeal of Illiberal Democracies
Participatory democracy with teeth takes effort!
I want here to give a shout-out to The Contrarian, the Substack founded by Norm Eisen with Jennifer Rubin. Together they, and the participating journalists and guest commentators, have succ...
Experiencing the Non-Existence of Anti-Judaism
Mark Mazower’s 2025 Antisemitism: A Word in History argues that, from the 1960s, “antisemitism” has come to exist largely as a mirage constructed by Zionist supporters of Israel. To fuel its politics, Zionism requires the representation of...
"Now is The Time of Monsters"
Sometimes it takes a medievalist to translate contemporary political discourse into the structural terms through which it operates. There are tropes that carry historical baggage impossible to wave away as arcane, for it is the very sedimen...
Jew vs. Jew today, a reply to Shaul Magid, pt 2
III. The gravitas of the hyphen
The term antizionism, sans hypen and with a small ‘z’, names an ideological formation in which Zionism has become a screen for the transference and projection of all that must be overcome in the world. Its v...
Jew vs. Jew today, a reply to Shaul Magid, pt 1
My title references the prize-winning book, from 2000, by Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew: the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction). Already by the end of the last century, con...
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I am a medievalist with scholarly publications on specialized questions. Here, I write on ideology, politics, and culture at the intersection of Jewish concerns and academic values.
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