Articles by Alex Skopic



Truth and Lies About the Gaza Protests

Two new documentaries tell very different stories about the campus protest movement for Palestine. In “October 8,” we’re told the protests are cesspools of antisemitic hate. But in “The Encampments,” we learn just how wrong that is.




The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise

In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today.