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Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, an award-winning journalist, and the author of 12 books, most recently We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, November 2022). Previously, he wrote The Nation’s “Liberal Media” column for 25 years. Follow him on Twitter @eric_alterman
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Altercation: Deal-Making Republican ‘Pragmatists’? Like, Who?
The ‘moderates’ who want a debt default: a case study in journalistic destruction of the meaning of words
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Altercation: On the Roots of Fascism
Is it belief in an ideology that creates fascists, or is it the permission to become a thug?
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Altercation: George Santos a Liar? Small-Time When Compared to His Fellow Republicans.
In the party of Trump, deceit is the new common parlance.
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Eric Alterman’s List of the Best Stuff of 2022
The year in movies, books, music, and art
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Altercation: Getting Real on Crime and Punishment
Republicans and New York’s ‘Democratic’ mayor demagogue on the issue, even as many real Democrats fail even to engage it.
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Altercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
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Altercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
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Altercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
