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Aug 28, 2017, 7:23 PM
A Season of Mayhem
Even while President Trump basks in the adulation of supporters, the country is abuzz with speculation about how, and when, he will leave office. No one knows what and whether the final act will be. But most imagine an...
Jan 20, 2017, 7:15 AM
Endgame
The most informing analyses of Donald Trump have come from Donald Trump. Speaking in Iowa last January, he boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” The past year has...
Nov 7, 2016, 11:54 AM
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Why nations destroy themselves
Terror of frailty and death may be why Americans are ready to throw themselves into a volcano (illustrative image via iStock/Getty)
Americans' fear of frailty and death may be why so many of them are ready to throw themselves into a volcano
Jul 5, 2016, 6:25 PM
On the Road with Elie
In the 1980s, I had the chance to drive Elie Wiesel from a talk at the University of Michigan to a small college an hour away where he was also speaking. By then, I had been interviewing and writing...
Mar 3, 2015, 5:04 PM
Young American’s Israel Fatigue
It appears that many seasoned commentators on Israel believe that, whatever happens with Netanyahu’s speech in Congress—and within the Israeli election to follow—nothing significant will change regarding American support for Israel.   There have been rough patches before.  The...
Mar 3, 2015, 5:03 PM
Young Americans’ Israel Fatigue
It appears that many seasoned commentators on Israel believe that, whatever happens with Netanyahu’s speech in Congress—and within the Israeli election to follow—nothing significant will change regarding American support for Israel.  There have been rough patches before.  The relationship...
Aug 4, 2014, 6:48 AM
Dead Children and the War on Shame
In recent days, the right-wing website, The Daily Caller, has featured a series of articles alleging that Hamas was intending to use its tunnels to “target Israel’s kindergartens.”  Indeed, the writer suggests that “fantastic quantities of explosives” had already...
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About Me
Henry (Hank) Greenspan is a psychologist and playwright at the University of Michigan who has been interviewing, teaching, and writing about the Holocaust and its survivors since the 1970s.