Reckoning with October 7: Our Troubled Institutions

"Our Troubled Institutions: The End(s) of Higher Education, Post-Journalism, and Antisemitism after October 7" is the fifth webinar in the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's yearlong series reckoning with the response to the atrocities on October 7. This panel featured Russell A. Berman, Gadi Taub, and Paulina Neuding, it was moderated by Gabriel Noah Brahm. Unfortunately due to technical issues, the video of Pauling Neuding could not be included here. The discussion took place on May 7, 2024. For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website.

Prof. Russell A. Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directs the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He previously served as Senior Advisor on the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State and as a Commissioner on the Commission on Inalienable Rights. He is currently a member of the National Humanities Council. He is the Editor Emeritus of Telos and President of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute.

Dr. Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. Having been canceled not long ago by Haaretz—his popular column shuttered because he supported judicial reform in Israel—Taub now writes a regular column for Tablet. His non-fiction books include the bestselling A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture (Hebrew), What Is Zionism? (Hebrew), The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism (Yale University Press, 2010), and, more recently, Global Elites and National Citizens in Israel, the U.S., and the West (Hebrew). His bestselling novel Allenby St. was adapted as a prime-time TV drama series, which he created and co-wrote. He hosts Israel’s leading Hebrew conservative podcast, Gate Keeper, and co-hosts (with Michael Doran) the English language podcast Israel Update.

Paulina Neuding is a prominent journalist and political commentator in Sweden. Formerly editor-in-chief of Neo and Kvartal, and formerly the European editor at Quillette, she currently writes for Svenska Dagbladet. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, the Spectator, the Jerusalem Post, Le Monde, Gazeta Wyborcza, Die Welt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and many other international publications.

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