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Pound Foolish

While Pound hailed Hitler, and Gertrude Stein cheered Franco, William Carlos Williams eschewed doctrine and orthodoxy. Herbert Leibowitz's compelling new biography of the modernist poet shows why.Deflecting a Nuclear Iran

It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons: Tacti­cally, Iran's nuclear program is not yet mature. And strategically, the Islamic Republic is not a sustain­able system. (PDF)    Sha-bot

Can a robot be a Shabbos goy? The question is not simple, but it is not without Talmudic precedent.I Shall Be Released

"On June 12, two dozen state security officials barged into my hostel room, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and transported me to their general prosecutor." Reflections on a detention in Egypt.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich

By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.Native Son

After Gen. David Petraeus, the greatest single influence on American counterinsurgency practice in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Tunisian-born Jew who has been dead more than 40 years.Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty

Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest.Welcome to Haredistan

A microstate with no army and a defense pact with its closest neighbor, Israel; a welfare state to make Scandinavians jealous; education, with small classes and long days, state-funded through college.Extremism, Ideology, Reform

We hear a lot about the ultra-Orthodox community's fractious encounters with outsiders. But is this growing extremism a reaction to dramatic changes within ultra-Orthodoxy itself?Three Talmudists Confront the Evil Urge

A symposium on the psychological, historical, and rabbinic development of the yetzer hara picks up where Jewish Ideas Daily left off.