Isaac Scher
@isaacscher
research @nytopinion / writing in @jewishcurrents, @guardian, @theintercept, @nytimes / reach me at [email protected], or signal (below)
Kim Phillips-Fein on Zohran Mamdani and Fiorello La Guardia: "Today’s Democratic establishment—which, as in Tammany days, expects a supine working class easily bought off with symbols and favors—cannot run the city, or even its own party, unchallenged." jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
Immediately calls to mind @xlorentzen on Biden: "I need money." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
Extreme police violence at protesters for Gaza today in Berlin
"Double tap strikes have become particularly common in recent months when Israel bombs schools in Gaza, where displaced residents have sought shelter."
A new investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag adds yet further evidence that Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians and aims to maximize casualties: 972mag.com/double-tap-isr…
Am I mistaken, or is it impossible to find @jkbjournalist's book-length exposé of Jeffrey Epstein, "Perversion of Justice," for sale virtually anywhere online?
An Israeli security source monitored the aftermath of an airstrike in which children were burned alive: "Her daughter was still alive, she was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter."
A new investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag adds yet further evidence that Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians and aims to maximize casualties: 972mag.com/double-tap-isr…
A new investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag adds yet further evidence that Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians and aims to maximize casualties: 972mag.com/double-tap-isr…
A large store of evidence compiled by @LeeMordechai and associated researchers: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/upl…
More than 100 Palestinian deaths by Israeli-engineered starvation logged to date — about 10% of them occurring in the last 24 hours. ft.com/content/acb611…
"I’ve been working on this field . . . for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today." democracynow.org/2025/7/21/fore…
Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest democracynow.org/2025/7/23/sere…
The union of Agence France-Presse: "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" of starvation.
"The liberal American intelligentsia seems to have relaxed too cozily into imperial cultures of exaggerated self-esteem and self-satisfaction." harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
There is a basic solution: the blue book. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Fun to read in the popular press. Grundrisse next. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
It is for this reason that journalism's finest practitioners tend not to be journalists.
The division of much of intellectual life into journalism and academia is sort of a tragedy because the defects of each one are potentially very nicely remedied by the other
Not so much a "golden era" as a gilded one — meretricious and utterly boring. There used to be good journalism but its practitioners have never published in Vanity Fair. yalereview.org/article/burrou…
