In the wake of the mass criticism from media around news site The Messenger, Jimmy Finkelstein is sticking up for his new venture. “I sold The Hill a year and a half ago,” Finkelstein told Vanity Fair ...

The Messenger founder Jimmy Finkelstein is looking for more cash from new and current investors to bail out the struggling news start-up, Axios reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. The report ...

The Messenger’s shuttering is another hit to the digital news industry, and Finkelstein’s letter to staff citing “economic headwinds” for the publication’s failure feels familiar to those following ...

Despite falling flat on his face with doomed media outlet The Messenger, Jimmy Finkelstein is already looking to launch another project, multiple sources familiar with the situation told The Daily ...

The Messenger — a yet-to-be-launched news site from media mogul Jimmy Finkelstein — risks becoming a money pit helmed by old-school executives with “delusional” ambitions in an increasingly cutthroat ...

A golem is a figure in Jewish folklore usually made of clay, mud, or dust; a vessel for a word or idea, a metaphor come to life. Golems figure throughout "Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus ...

The New York Times has a profile of fired Muhlenberg professor Maura Finkelstein that portrays her as a martyr for academic freedom. Here is what David L. Bernstein and I wrote about her case in our ...

Norman Finkelstein has spent decades confronting moral compromise, exposing institutional hypocrisy, and refusing the seduction of comfort and civility in the face of atrocity. In his recent ...

In his landmark book, “Democracy in America,” 19th century French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville commented on the fever pitch to which American polemics can often ascend. In a chapter titled “Why ...