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Philip WeissFellowPhilip Weiss is a writer with a long engagement in progressive issues. His latest project is a website he founded in 2006, called Mondoweiss, that explores Middle East policy, Israel/Palestine issues, and Jewish identity. He is widely traveled and has published two books, a political novel, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, and American Taboo, an investigative account of a 1976 murder in the Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga. Weiss was born in Boston in 1955, grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from Harvard College. He then worked for weekly newspapers in Minnesota and for the Philadelphia Daily News. After moving to New York in the 1980s, he worked at various times as a contributing writer to Harper's, Spy Magazine, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. For nearly 10 years he wrote a column for the New York Observer. His chief interest now is writing about American foreign policy in the Middle East in the wake of 9/11, particularly as it relates to Zionism, neoconservatism and assimilationist attitudes in the Jewish community. On his website, where he is partnered with longtime Palestine activist Adam Horowitz, he has spearheaded efforts to fracture the monolithic support inside the Jewish community for the Israeli occupation. His other projects include a book on Americans in New Guinea in 1943, and explorations of Jewish history and Lincoln in the 1850s. Weiss lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Cynthia Kling, who is also a writer.
Selected Articles: Rethinking Zionism The Affairs of Men His New York Jewish Public Self Was American Triumph Watching Matt Drudge One, Two, Three, Four, Can a Columbia Movement Rise Once More? |
Working In The ShadowsA Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. Check out Thompson's interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley here. More El Monstruo: Book TourFebruary 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
February 11 - May 14
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