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Category Archives: Mark Oppenheimer
Judy Blume: A Life (2026)
Here are some highlights from Mark Oppenheimer’s new book: * Library Journal may have been sour on Judy, but its readers, the country’s librarians, were not. When parents and activists began to challenge Judy’s books and ask that they be … Continue reading
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NYT: He Wrote Judy Blume’s Life Story. She Won’t Talk About It.
I find a humility and openness in Mark Oppenheimer’s work that makes him incredibly likable. Elisabeth Egan writes in the New York Times: Janet Malcolm, whose papers are also at the Beinecke Library, famously compared a biographer to a burglar, … Continue reading
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Mark Oppenheimer & The Broker’s Wager
Mark Oppenheimer was born in 1974 into a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts, a mid-sized New England city that gave him his first education in the textures of American pluralism. He grew up arguing. His memoir Wisenheimer records a … Continue reading
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New Yorker: The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday
Since August of 1988, when I first discovered Dennis Prager on the radio, I’ve wondered why he never receives academic attention. With the growing success of PragerU, he’s getting serious attention for the first time. Why did it take almost … Continue reading
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Who Writes Jewish Narratives Without Permission?
In his book, Forgive for Good, Stanford psychology professor Fred Luskin recommends that we stop writing people up for our unenforceable tickets. While this ticketing practice is not generally conducive for our happiness, it usually feels good in the moment, … Continue reading
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‘THE SPECIFICALLY JEWY PERVINESS OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN’
Jews like John Podhoretz and Jeffrey Goldberg are going crazy over this piece. I'm still in a horrified rage over the @tabletmag piece. — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 10, 2017 I expect the Donna Karan walk back by noon tomorrow. … Continue reading
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Suzi At Yale
Mark Oppenheimer writes about the original American campus sex scandal starring a Jewess named Suzi who gave a ton of blowjobs at age 14: News that Yale boys had been getting blowjobs from a townie—a freshman townie—was bad news indeed. … Continue reading
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Mark Oppenheimer: ‘My lesson in free speech: As a Jew, meeting with Holocaust deniers actually left me feeling empowered’
Mark writes an Op/Ed in the LA Times: In 2009, I interviewed Mark Weber and Bradley Smith, two amateur historians notorious for being among the leading Holocaust “revisionists.” Smith is an old-school denier, dubious about the existence of gas chambers, … Continue reading
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LAT: Flags are great for holiday celebration, but hyper-patriotism is un-American
As soon as I read that headline in the Los Angeles Times today, I prayed, “Let the author not be a Jew.” My prayer was not answered. Why do many Jews fear gentile patriotism? Because the stronger the goy gets … Continue reading
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Some Hollywood Jews Tried To Molest Shirley Temple
When Catholic priests molest kids, it is always pointed out that they are Catholic priests. When Hollywood Jews and rabbis molest, their identities should be pointed out too. Shirley Temple writes in her book Child Star: An Autobiography of multiple … Continue reading
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