A. Jay Adler

A. Jay Adler did his graduate studies at Columbia University and is currently Adjunct Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. and Professor of English, Emeritus, Los Angeles Southwest College. He is also contributing poetry editor at West Magazine. Adler writes in all genres, including poetry, drama, screenwriting, fiction, and essay. His journalism has appeared in DoubleTake and Tikkun, his essays on film in Bright Lights Film Journal, Senses of Cinema, and The Fortnightly Review, and his writing on Native America has been anthologized in Global Viewpoints: Indigenous Peoples. Adler is the featured writer in the forthcoming issue of Footnote: a Journal of Literary History. He blogs on politics, ideas, and culture at the sad red earth. His most recent writing on Israel, "Academic Boycotts and Re-Colonization by Theory," appears at Scholars for Peace in The Middle East.

ARTICLES BY: A. Jay Adler

August 1, 2012 12:25 pm

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Playing Politics with Jews

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), in his best Captain Renault form - which includes being entirely insincere and unconvincing - is shocked, shocked to...

July 23, 2012 12:22 pm

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Alexander Cockburn: Remembering the Dead

It really is the ultimate sentimentality. That concern with how we will be remembered, or how those for whom we care will be treated in the...

July 6, 2012 2:04 pm

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God and Man at the Higgs Boson Level

I wrote the other day how most physicists who speak of it are uncomfortable with the label "God" particle for the Higgs boson particle, the existence...

June 28, 2012 12:49 pm

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J Street on Its Own Terms

It is easy enough to criticize J Street from a conservative perspective, which, given developments since the failure of Oslo and the second Intifada, is...

May 30, 2012 2:41 pm

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What’s Left of the Jewish Left?

Adam Kirsch reports in Tablet on the recent YIVO conference "Jews and the Left," held at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Among the presenters...