A. Jay Adler
ARTICLES BY: A. Jay Adler
CUNY and the Warfare of Academic Antisemitism
When the City University of New York (CUNY) faculty union -- the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) -- passed its June 10 resolution, so-called, “in support...
Why I Resigned From the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)-CUNY
I am an ardent, lifelong supporter of organized labor. In the past, I served on the executive board and two contract negotiating teams for the...
The Third Narrative: Not So Third, Not a Narrative, Not New
I regret to say that a fair number of people I respect (and some not so much) have signed on to a statement about the...
A Misguided Argument About Anti-Semitism
In the Wall Street Journal of February 3, Harvard's Ruth R. Wisse published an Op-Ed titled "The Dark Side of the War on 'the One...
Wrong on Both Counts: Academic Boycotts and Israel
Statements rejecting calls for an academic boycott of Israel, such as that recently resolved by the academic American Studies Association, generally resort fully only to...
Forgetfulness is a Chemical Weapon
Something fails to fire. Across the synaptic gap, neurotransmission falls short. For only a moment or forever, we cease to remember - -- "as if," Billy...
Helen Thomas and Oedipus
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday morning, new host David Folkenflik hosted three female journalists, including Judy Woodruff, Ann Compton, and Candy Crowley in considering the...
‘Blowback’ and the Rhetoric of Revenge
Terror apologia begins by denying the very meaning of the word terrorism, but slyly redirects the charge at the Western nations that use the word....
“It goes without saying”: the Further Rhetoric of Terrorist Apologia
When the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, then with Salon, interviewed Rene Brulin in 2010, the purpose of the conversation was to discuss Brulin's research into the...
The United States of Securitopia
How bad is the administration's defense of its just revealed telephone and internet surveillance programs? Pretty bad. Mind you, that question does not address the programs themselves....
Notes Toward a Terror Apologist’s Rhetoric (Abridged but Unexpurgated)
You have probably noticed that an enormous amount of public debate is repetition. It gets to the point - you hear the same arguments often...
Drones and the Human Agency of War
Joshua Foust has written at Foreign Policy a misleadingly titled essay, "A Liberal Case for Drones." I think there is such a case, but this...
A Campaign of Willful Blindness on Terrorism
On April 15, 2013 at 2:49 p.m. two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Most of us know the details, more...
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...