All the Apparatus

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Reflections from the frontlines of antisemitism

Essays, reviews and early access to my other stuff.

One Newfoundlander in Nova Scotia tries to make sense of the world. It ain't easy.

Politics, culture, society and, always, cats and dogs. "Entre nous et le ciel, l'enfer ou le néant, il n'y a donc que la vie, qui est la chose du monde la plus fragile."

Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.

Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world.

My personal Substack

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Author, Ceasefire: Why Women & Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999). Writer, The Bulwark. Newsday columnist, Reason contributing editor.