October 7 Created a Permission Structure for Anti-Semitism
What American Jews have experienced in the past year is both a pattern and a warning.
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies
At Harvard and elsewhere, an old falsehood is capturing new minds.
Illustration by James Hosking. Sources: Erica Lansner / Redux; Eric Cox / Reuters; Fine Art Images / Getty; JDC Archives; Library of Congress; Luis Sinco / Getty; National Library of Israel. Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse?
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
Photograph by Evan Jenkins for The Atlantic Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil
Ken Burns’s docuseries The U.S. and the Holocaust confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.
Getty; National Archives and Records Administration; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Auschwitz Is Not a Metaphor
The new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage gets everything right—and fixes nothing.
Spencer Platt / Getty The Immense Pressure on Children to Behave as Tiny Adults
When I re-read a beloved series of books from my childhood, I saw all too clearly how society limits kids’ creativity and originality.
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