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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
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
March 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Emptiness of Data Journalism
Nate Silver could learn a lot from those op-ed columnists he maligns
December 12, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
A Revelation on the Beach
November 9, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Stanley Kauffmann, 1916-2013
November 9, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
"By Doing Nothing in Syria, Obama Ensured That There Is Nothing We Can Do."
October 24, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Dumbing Religion Down in the New York Times
William James, Joel Osteen, and the Gray Lady
September 4, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Crimes Against Humanities
Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
July 18, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Egypt's Pathetic Liberals
June 10, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Idealism and Blindness
Of flaking paint and blemishes
March 20, 2013
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul Berman, Leon Wieseltier, Michael Ignatieff, David Greenberg, James P. Rubin, David Rieff, John B. Judis
Arguing Iraq—Ten Years Later
A symposium
December 21, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Education is the Work of Teachers, not Hackers
November 16, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Washington Diarist: Who By Water
Eyewitness Sandy: Reflections on a Disaster.
April 20, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
The Lost Art
March 14, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Specks of War
November 9, 2011
Leon Wieseltier
Outcome and Experience

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