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Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the War on Iran, and the Antisemitism Smear
Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran of MAGA pedigree, he found favour with President Donald J. Trump, who rewarded him for his conspiracy blustering in a manner befitting other nominees baptised in the truth repelling River of […]
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Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine
Host Faramarz Farbod talks with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, writer, ethnographer, anthropologist, and author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (DUP 2019). Dr. Finkelstein was falsely accused of antisemitism and fired last May (2024) from her teaching position at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. We talk about the state of academic freedom, […]
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If You Ever Start Trusting U.S. Businessmen, Remember Henry Ford
(The name Henry Ford came up in a comment thread recently so I thought it’d be helpful to offer some lost context.) Henry Ford, the autocratic magnate who despised unions, tyrannized workers, and fired any employee caught driving a competitor’s model, was also an outspoken anti-Semite. In 1918, he bought and ran a newspaper, The […]
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