Judith Shulevitz

@benshapiro Mazel tov!!

With immeasurable thanks to God, we’re proud to announce the addition of baby number 5 to the Shapiro family this morning!

One of the best reviews of a great book.

Catching up on an old @ShabbosReads, this was EXCELLENT in ways I completely didn’t expect. I started it because it was by a Columbia prof (who was co-chair of the A/S TF); I finished it because I couldn’t put it down.

Anti-Zionism claims to be for minority rights and against racism. What it really does is use the language of anti-colonial liberation to justify oppression, repurpose anti-racist jargon as racist accusations, and turn Israel-hating into a global cult. Gift link. @TheAtlantic @adam_louis52328 theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/…

List of top New York heroes: 1. Firefighters during 9/11 2. Jalen Brunson

Tiepolo’s “The Finding of Moses.” Goya’s “Blind Beggar With Dog.” Canines are everywhere in fine art, @JudithShulevitz writes. To understand a painting, look for the dog: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

If his goal was just to powerfully expose and criticize Israeli policies, there were more than enough verifiable stories and credible charges to make a strong column, but @NickKristof chose to pin his case to the least credible but most incendiary-sounding sources instead, as @elikowaz points out here. That’s bad journalism. It discredits @timesopinion. open.substack.com/pub/kowaz/p/kr…

@CathyYoung63 @conor64 @jon_rauch @anneapplebaum @jonathanchait @DavidAFrench @thomaschattwill @mattyglesias @CaitlinPacific @sapinker @Kasparov63 @jessesingal Nice piece, @CathyYoung63 . Thanks for doing it.

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New: at @JoinPersuasion, I address claims that "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" have 1) hypocritically abetted Trump's attacks on free speech/civil liberties (mostly no) 2) enabled Trump's ascent by stoking "moral panic" about "cancel culture" (nope!) persuasion.community/p/dont-blame-t…

The New Deal–era murals that adorn the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building offer an important lesson about patriotism, propaganda, and beauty, @JudithShulevitz writes. What will happen to them if the government sells the building? theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

The New Deal–era murals that adorn the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building offer an important lesson about patriotism, propaganda, and beauty, @JudithShulevitz writes. What will happen to them if the government sells the building? theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Glad to see a non-Jewish organization take an unequivocal stance against Jew hatred. The Ontario Camp Association flatly rejects the demonization and would-be boycott of Canadian Jewish summer camps. Sadly, not something that happens everyday. ontariocampsassociation.ca/about/special-…

I wrote a piece about Toni Morrison's complicated views on black history. What about Confederate statues? someone asked. Leave them up, she said. Talk about them. Hang a noose around their necks. She wasn’t kidding. Which explains some things about her novels. Gift link. theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

This an incredible, incredible story. It’s about a massive fortune being deployed, grant by grant, to transform the humanities into an activist training ground. By ⁦@Tyler_A_Harper⁩ theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵

George Washington set the benchmark for presidential temperament. Here's how Trump blew it up. theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

Superb piece on the silence of the left on the protest in Iran by @galbeckerman theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption under Donald Trump's photograph. It still has a story to tell—@JudithShulevitz looks deep into the portrait and describes what glowers back: theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

Like some demonic trickster, Trump moves through the world robbing it of speech. I analyze a case of censorship at the National Portrait Gallery--and the bullying new portrait of him that just went up there. Gift link. @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…