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A. Jay Adler

Jul 24, 2012, 8:02 AM

When I wrote the other day about our dumbness before the phenomenon of terrorism - so often the wanton and random killing in large numbers of those who must by any non-self-justifying reason be considered innocents - I was invoking the...

Jul 3, 2012, 10:01 AM

Male Genital Enhancement

Is it too fanciful to imagine that Germany might wait, say, a thousand years, the length of an eponymously termed Tausendjähriges Reich, before any governmental body in that country could feel sufficiently conscientiously liberated as to actually restrict a...

Jun 11, 2012, 9:40 AM

The Sham Postcolonial Argument against Israel

In my last commentary, I focused on the role of third, outside parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of the conditions that muddies consideration of the conflict and now raises profound obstacles to its settlement, is the purposeful, strategic...

Jun 4, 2012, 11:32 AM

The “Peace and Justice” Charade

We have it from Aesop that “a doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” Let there be no doubt, then, for...

About Me

A. Jay Adler did his graduate studies at Columbia University and is Professor of English at Los Angeles Southwest College. He is a 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 film criticism in Bright Lights Film Journal, and his writing on Native America has been anthologized in Global Viewpoints: Indigenous Peoples. Adler blogs on politics, ideas, and culture at the sad red earth.