Articles by Richard Landes

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/12/20/handelman-to-executive-director-on-mla-boycotting-israel/A friend and colleague, and member of the MLA (Modern Language Association) for decades, just received a letter from the Executive Director of the MLA informing them about the three proposed that will be discussed […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/12/15/saids-disorientations/MEQ just published my article on Edward Saïd. They entitled it “‘Celebrating’ Orientalism,” which I presume is meant to be ironic. My more direct title was “Disoriented by Saïd: The Contribution of Post-Colonialism to 21st century […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/12/13/progressive-and-caliphater-millennialism-interview-in-mishpacha-magazine/An interview with me just appeared in Mischpacha magazine. It was initially done as coverage of a talk I gave in Montreal on BDS and Cogwar (definitions posted here), but mutated into a much more complex discussion […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/11/23/the-low-countries-at-their-lowest-dutch-lethal-own-goal-journalism/I only now have become aware (thanks to Twitter) of Hans Moll‘s book (2011) on Holland’s most presitigious paper (only in Dutch alas) and Bruce Bawer’s review of it for Frontpage in English. Here I […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/11/13/bibliography-of-articles-on-the-msnms-trumpfail/The unanticipated victory of Trump has left the MSNM in something of a quandary. Their scarcely concealed advocacy for Clinton, and contempt for Trump, for his supporters, even for pundits expressed the heretical speculation that […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/10/29/spencer-pack-to-conncoll-faculty-on-harassing-jewish-faculty/Spencer Pack, who invited me to speak at ConnColl about the Pessin Case, has written to the faculty about their President, Katherine Bergeron’s response to claims of harassment of Jewish members of the community. He […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/10/26/suicide-bombing-western-disorientations-and-partial-realizations/JP. O’Mally writes a review in the Times of Israel of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East: LONDON — In the closing sentence of  Patrick Cockburn gives […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2016/10/26/review-of-james-palmer-apocalyptic-in-the-early-middle-ages/  The Medieval Review 16.10.19 Palmer, James T. The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. pp. 274. $29.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-107-44909-1 (hardback). Reviewed by: Richard Landes CIC, Bar Ilan University […]