Leon Wieseltier has been the literary editor of The New Republic since 1983.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1952. After three years as a graduate student in Jewish history at Harvard University, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1979 to 1982. He also attended Columbia University and Oxford University.
He is the author of Nuclear War Nuclear Peace, Against Identity, and
Kaddish.
Post date 06.30.06
Existentialism in Palestine.
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Post date 04.07.06
When there's nothing to say about Iraq.
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Post date 03.13.06
A response to Stanley Fish.
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Post date 02.02.06
Steven Spielberg bravely confronts his fundamentalist critics.
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Post date 01.13.06
Ariel Sharon's addiction to action
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Post date 12.09.05
The case against Munich
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Post date 10.18.05
The problem with Angelina Jolie's visit to Africa
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Post date 08.25.05
Why no tears should be shed for the Jewish settlements in Gaza.
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Post date 08.12.05
Intelligent design is an expression of sentiment, not an exercise of reason.
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Post date 06.29.05
A critical exegesis of Rehnquist's and Scalia's commandments.
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Post date 04.14.05
As a matter of philosophical principle and artistic method, Saul Bellow married life to thought.
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Post date 04.04.05
From the March 27, 2000 issue of TNR: The Pope was right to apologize for the Church's crimes. He was also too late.
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Post date 03.15.05
The Supreme Court, the Ten Commandments, and pluralism.
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Post date 02.23.05
Utopianism is back.
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Post date 01.07.05
Why we side with humans, not nature.
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Post date 11.15.04
Morality and religion aren't the same thing, no matter what the exit polls say.
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Post date 10.26.04
A response to Joan Didion.
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Post date 09.17.04
Israel's coming war within.
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Post date 08.17.04
From the August 1, 1983 issue of TNR: Leon Wieseltier's review of Czeslaw Milosz's The Witness of Poetry.
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Post date 08.12.04
Remembering Sidney Morgenbesser.
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Post date 06.21.04
Disillusion and its limits.
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Post date 06.11.04
From the April 4, 1981 issue of TNR: Reagan's contempt for small business.
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Post date 06.02.04
What is compassion, if not an exercise in moral equivalence?
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Post date 04.05.04
What religion, and conservatism, and America can learn from the atheists among us.
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Post date 02.26.04
Leon Wieseltier on the many outrages of The Passion of the Christ.
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Post date 01.19.04
Dean's secularism was admirable if politically problematic. His recent religiosity is just problematic.
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Post date 10.18.03
Israel, Palestine, and the return of the bi-national fantasy.
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Post date 10.07.03
Debating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Yossi Klein Halevi v. Leon Wieseltier.
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Post date 09.17.03
Two years after 9/11, some Americans haven't moved on. That's the good news.
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Post date 08.06.03
The good news is the president believes in something. The bad news is he's not big on unbelievers.
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Post date 04.02.03
Edward Said appropriates Sigmund Freud.
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Post date 02.25.03
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Post date 02.11.03
Leon Wieseltier on what Louis Menand should have learned from George Orwell.
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Post date 12.23.02
The debate over Tom Paulin's views on Israel misses the point.
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Post date 11.01.02
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Post date 09.09.02
Leon Wieseltier on one of 9/11's most haunting images.
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Post date 08.27.02
Leon Wieseltier on the media's "September 11."
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Post date 05.16.02
Against the ethnic panic of American Jews.
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Post date 04.04.02
Leon Wieseltier: The unreality, and the necessity, of peace after martyrdom.
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Post date 02.25.02
How not to understand what was done to a good man. By Leon Wieseltier
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