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Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai lives in Jerusalem and New Hampshire. He is a visiting professor of government at Dartmouth and an adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University. His most recent book is Promiscuous: "Portnoy’s Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness. He is also the author of The Tragedy of Zionism and The Hebrew Republic.

Articles

News and Features

Letters

About that file in your cake…; Zion Agonistes; a poem for Malala…

Our Readers and Bernard Avishai
A Tale of Two Zionisms: On Peter Beinart (Race and Religion, History, Books and the Arts)

Why Israel’s purposes cannot be grasped only through the American Jewish experience.

Bernard Avishai
Exchange

A bowlful of vinegar.

Our Readers and Bernard Avishai
A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act (Barack Obama, Healthcare Policy, History, Books and the Arts)

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

Bernard Avishai
Against Boycott and Divestment (Foreign Policy, World)

Punishing Israel's most progressive elements will not help to end the occupation.

Bernard Avishai
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A World Apart? : The White House and the Middle East (Regions and Countries, History)

A shrewd history of why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace.

Bernard Avishai
Crash Landings: Paul Krugman's Depression Economics (Economics, Non-fiction)

Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.

Bernard Avishai
Letters


Mouths Water. Earth Smiles.

Orient, N.Y.

Eric Alterman, Our Readers and Bernard Avishai
An Unlikely King: Hussein in War and Peace (Biography, Regions and Countries)

An authoritative new biography of Jordan's King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.

Bernard Avishai

Blogs

OpinionNation: A Forum on Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)
In this second round, Eric Alterman and Lizzy Ratner respond to arguments for and against BDS.
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