Click Here to Read: The China Question: In matters of trade and manufacturing, the United States has not been the naive victim of cunning Chinese masterminds. We asked for this by Michael Lind on the Tablet website on May 19, 2020.
Continuing discussions about the trade relationship between the United States and China, USTR Robert Lighthizer leads the United States delegation in principal-level trade meetings with officials from China, led by Vice Premier Liu He. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: History
What a Difference a ‘J’ Makes
ClicK Here to Read: What a Difference a ‘J’ Makes: The history of religious identification in military insignia—and how Jewish symbols evolved
by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet Website on Mat 20, 2020.
Staff Sgt. Xhevair Maskuli, external influence analyst, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, follows along in the Jewish Prayer Book, Victory Chapel, Camp Victory, Sept. 11. Image: Pfc. Karin Leach. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
We now have more evidence that Galileo likely never said “And yet it moves”
Click Here to Read: We now have more evidence that Galileo likely never said “And yet it moves”: Astrophysicist Mario Livio talks about his new book Galileo and the Science Deniers by Jennifer Ouellette on the Ars Technica website on May 17, 2020.
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustemans Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
America’s response to the coronavirus is the most American thing ever
The Twinned Evils of ‘Nosferatu
Virginia and the Woolf
Click Here to Read: Virginia and the Woolf: A drive across Hitler’s Germany and Austria in May 1935 made Leonard Woolf’s Jewishness real by Jonathan Wilson on the Tablet Website on May 14, 2020.
Engagement photograph, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912, a month before their wedding. Photograph taken at Dalingridge Place, the Sussex home of Virginia’s half-brother, George DuckworthPublic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.