Character Studies
- November 2018
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18th Nov 2018
Back in the days when I worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, covering the politics and societies of a vast…
- June 2018
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21st Jun 2018
Howard Rosenman is a spielmeister, a storyteller, “not anything more, not anything less.” A producer of Father of the Bride,…
- May 2018
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5th May 2018
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst is the literary bard of modern British gay life. His 1987 debut, The Swimming Pool Library, tells…
- January 2018
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17th Jan 2018
Late in the fall of 2007, I called up an obscure radio host named Alex Jones. At the time, Jones…
- August 2017
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26th Aug 2017
In his fateful interview with Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, Steve Bannon’s remarks about taking a tougher stand on…
- June 2017
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14th Jun 2017
Linda Sarsour is a progressive-media darling. One of Essence magazine’s “Woke 100 Women,” Sarsour was named a leader of the…
- May 2017
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7th May 2017
Dear Britain: Please stop sending us your failed media celebrities. Louise Mensch is a former chick-lit novelist, politician, and founding…
- May 2015
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4th May 2015
Since Pamela Geller likes to fashion herself a heroine of the Jewish people, let me use a Yiddish word to…
- December 2014
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8th Dec 2014
Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and…
- May 2014
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29th May 2014
Raphael Glucksmann should be with his family in Paris, but he’s too busy defending the nascent liberal democracy in Ukraine
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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