Tag Archives: anti-Semitism
On Democracies and Death Cults – Review
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 15th April 2025Douglas Murray has written an analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict that focuses on the war in Gaza as a starting point. As the title suggests, he believes the struggle is between a society committed to life and another that views death and martyrdom as the ultimate achievement of existence. The slender volume, it contains less…
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The Ring Operas And Anti-Semitism
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th March 2022That Wagner was anti-Semitic is indisputable. The extent to which his prejudice entered his operas is much less certain. Eric Nelson, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard, recently published Wagner and the Anti-Semitism of ‘the Ring’ in Commentary. Professor Nelson approaches this subject from an unusual position. He knows the Ring operas…
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