Ruth Wisse is a literary scholar and professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard University. A prominent conservative intellectual, she contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on literature, Jewish culture, antisemitism, and international politics over two decades. She is the author of numerous books on Yiddish literature and Jewish political thought.
On the day that Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu was leaving for the United States to give what the Washington Post called “the most important speech of his life,” my grandchildren were watching Big Hero 6. When I heard the smallest of the animated characters say, “We didn’t set out to be super-heroes,…
It now seems that one Jew is worth more than 1,000 Arabs—the rate of exchange established not by Israel, but by Hamas, and celebrated on the Arab street. The “prisoner swap” of more than a thousand Arab prisoners for the single Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped five years ago and held in…
West Point
Dear Skip,
The struggle between the Obama and McCain campaigns over who claims the motto of "Change" in the current election campaign brings to mind one of the brightest moments in my university career.
JEANE KIRKPATRICK once remarked that while she was a professor of political science there were two mysteries she could not understand: how the Holocaust could have happened, and how the rest of the world could have let it happen. Things became clear once she took her post as U.S. ambassador to the…
Jorge Semprun
Mourning for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will be more prolonged than for any bereavement Israel has yet known. The assassination of a democratic leader is a blow to whole nation at once. Unlike tile monarch or autocrat who imposes his rule on a people, the elected head of a democratic government…