Noel Ignatiev

I entered Central High School in September of 1954. Around that time I first heard the Yiddish word “shikse” (a…

The following appeared on the internet site of a company in China that produces replica watches. (Replicas are not forgeries…

Israel’s Likudnik Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached into his bag of Zionist tricks and pulled out a brand-new demand…

Dear Colleagues, The classics of the Western literary tradition are the foundation of culture. In arriving at this belief…

I ended my last week’s report with the hope the ‘the French people, who are always full of surprises, will…

Dear Friends, People ask me what it’s like living in France during these massive one-day strikes and popular mobilizations against…

I have no memory of the first place we lived after I was born. It was across from beautiful Fairmount…

I once had a job operating a horizontal boring mill in a plant that manufactured punch presses, machine tools and…

On being asked what he thought of Western Civilization, Gandhi is reported to have replied, “It would be a good…

My grandparents on both sides were born in the 1880s and came to America shortly after 1905, four among the…