David P. Goldman

To bridge the growing divide between secular and religious Israelis, look to the founder of modern Orthodoxy

On the composer’s 250th birthday

Alex Ross’ ‘Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’

An excerpt from David Goldman’s new book: ‘You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-Form the World’

Thomas Mann and his son Klaus Mann both wrote novels that updated Goethe’s ‘Faust’ for the horrors of the 20th century. Whose version will be remembered?

L’Affaire Nyírő

Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and Leonidas Kavakos celebrate a double anniversary at Carnegie Hall

How the fight for the next communications ecosystem could make a world dependent on Chinese technology, Chinese software, Chinese e-commerce, Chinese venture capital, and the Chinese market

When Germany’s most famous Jewish journalist chose to address a party tied to his country’s far right, it wasn’t the groveling performance some have claimed but a brave challenge

Taking on the New Atheists, Scott Shay’s new book sparks a conversation about the existence of God

In his new book, Yoram Hazony sees the world through a Zionist lens, offering an intriguing way forward

Race theory, Aryan purity, and a Jewish purge in Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’

The British composer Thomas Adès, the son of Syrian-Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, leads an operatic adaption of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film into a biblical trap

Tablet en Español: El compositor británico Thomas Ádes, hijo de inmigrantes sirio-judíos que llegaron al Reino Unido, conduce una adaptación operística de la película surrealista de Luis Buñuel a una trampa bíblica

New York City Opera strikes it rich with Puccini’s ‘La Fanciulla,’ in a ‘triumphant’ return for the house of music of our humble European immigrant ancestors