Posts Tagged: Eric Hoffer
What the Tale of Korach Tells Us About the New York City Mayoral Race
Eric Hoffer was an American longshoreman and self-taught philosopher. His 1951 book The True Believer brilliantly dissected the inner workings of mass movements and the dangers posed...
Revisiting Israel’s ‘Peculiar Position’
Amidst the continued criticism of Israel for simply defending herself, I couldn’t help but think of an amazing op-ed by Eric Hoffer -- a famed...
WSJ Republishes Op-Ed From 1968: ‘The Jews Are a Peculiar People: Things Permitted to Other Nations Are Forbidden to the Jews’
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday republished an Op-Ed, originally printed by the LA Times in 1968, by a non-Jewish winner of the U.S....
