Author

Benjamin Balint

Benjamin Balint, a writer living in Jerusalem, is the author of Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right (PublicAffairs) and Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy (W.W. Norton).

Articles by Benjamin Balint

Only a Jew

Only a Jew

Israel is the screen onto which the Left projects its own anxieties.
Blasphemer

Blasphemer

A review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir, by Salman Rushdie
Sickness Unto Death

Sickness Unto Death

A review of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, by Robert S. Wistrich

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