Новости за 06.04.2016

Every day this week—Major League Baseball’s opening stretch—we will feature one story on The Scroll about baseball. Today we offer a roundup of nine terrific baseball books for all kinds of young readers. They’re in no particular order, so you could argue that they’re all worthy of batting clean-up.

In a lengthy interview with The New York Daily News published this week, Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders raised some eyebrows when he massively inflated the death toll in the 2014 Gaza conflict, saying “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza.” This remark sparked a firestorm of criticism, given that even Palestinian authorities put the civilian casualties at 1,462 out of the total 2,251 dead, while Israel puts the number at significantly less than that, and blames the... Читать дальше...

It’s no secret that Wisconsin primary loser Donald J. Trump—presidential candidate to the stars like Kid Rock, Mike Tyson, and Ted Nugent—has been trying to win over the Jews. There was that scary speech at AIPAC, with its immediate standing ovation and subsequent apology from the organization to anyone whose sensitivities to things like outright bigotry might have been piqued. There’s the fact that he seems to think it’s a compliment to routinely tell rooms full of Jews that he’s a tough negotiator, just like them. Читать дальше...

I know well-bred, well-mannered when I see it. I know about restraint and modesty and not showing off your wealth or your bank balance in public. I know that Jews, nouveau riche Jews, spent and are spending lavishly on weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and 3-year-olds’ birthday parties. It really isn’t very nice. Or is it?

In 1948, Stanley Edgar Hyman, best remembered today as the husband of the writer Shirley Jackson, published a book titled The Armed Vision, a survey of contemporary literary criticism. Remarkably, Hyman was no scholar—he was a staffer at The New Yorker—and he was writing for a popular audience, not an academic one. The hundreds of thousands of readers who made best-sellers of books like Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination, or Edmund Wilson’s Axel’s Castle could turn to The Armed Vision (a... Читать дальше...

Is Donald Trump a racist? He’s a charlatan and a narcissist, and his presidential campaign marks a further deterioration of our political culture. A Trump presidency would almost surely be a disaster for the republic, with the commander in chief tearing at the country’s delicate social fabric. He attracts racists, and sends racist dog-whistles that the worst of his followers pick up on.

The Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany have announced plans for parallel exhibitions of art from the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, had amassed a billion-dollar collection from dealing art in the Nazi era, before bequeathing it to his son.