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Philip WeissFellowPhilip Weiss is a writer with a long engagement in progressive issues. His latest project is a website he founded in 2006, called Mondoweiss, that explores Middle East policy, Israel/Palestine issues, and Jewish identity. He is widely traveled and has published two books, a political novel, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, and American Taboo, an investigative account of a 1976 murder in the Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga. Weiss was born in Boston in 1955, grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from Harvard College. He then worked for weekly newspapers in Minnesota and for the Philadelphia Daily News. After moving to New York in the 1980s, he worked at various times as a contributing writer to Harper's, Spy Magazine, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. For nearly 10 years he wrote a column for the New York Observer. His chief interest now is writing about American foreign policy in the Middle East in the wake of 9/11, particularly as it relates to Zionism, neoconservatism and assimilationist attitudes in the Jewish community. On his website, where he is partnered with longtime Palestine activist Adam Horowitz, he has spearheaded efforts to fracture the monolithic support inside the Jewish community for the Israeli occupation. His other projects include a book on Americans in New Guinea in 1943, and explorations of Jewish history and Lincoln in the 1850s. Weiss lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Cynthia Kling, who is also a writer.
Selected Articles: The Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement American Jews Rethink Israel Rethinking Zionism The Affairs of Men His New York Jewish Public Self Was American Triumph Watching Matt Drudge One, Two, Three, Four, Can a Columbia Movement Rise Once More? |
The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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