Alana Newhouse
American writer and editorWikipedia
3
MENTIONS
3
EPISODES
3
PODCASTS
Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Alana Newhouse".
Sep 17, 2026
Coleman HughesHOST
[audience applauds] So we're now gonna go to some audience questions.
Coleman HughesHOST
Um, someone writes, "Alana Newhouse at Tablet has an idea," she had a great essay, uh, to this effect, "that Western societies are losing touch with their ethnos and what makes their identity and society something to admire, and that drives hate," I would add via envy, "hate via envy towards Israel and Israelis/Zionists who are in touch with their ethnos and what makes their specific particular identity something to admire.
Coleman HughesHOST
How do you think about the tension or need for American Jews specifically to advocate for what makes us great and," not sure what the end of that says.
Coleman HughesHOST
"Great and cool.
Liel LeibovitzGUEST
You know why? Because, and I will say something that sounds crazier, but I believe it's true, because they're Zionists.
Liel LeibovitzGUEST
Alana Newhouse, my dear friend and Tablet's boss, wrote a great piece for Tablet about how Zionism is really the cure for everything.
Liel LeibovitzGUEST
And she has a moment in there where she cites a great section out of Michelle Wolbeck's recent book, not most recent, but one of his recent books, called Submission, in which...
Liel LeibovitzGUEST
Very, very fictional scenario, right? Muslims have taken over France and this lecturer has to decide whether he converts to Islam or loses his plum job at the Sorbonne.
Ben ChertoffHOST
As though Zionism were some recent political position you might reasonably put down if it got too inconvenient.
Ben ChertoffHOST
Alana Newhouse has no patience for that.
Alana NewhouseGUEST
That idea could not be more misguided in my view.
Alana NewhouseGUEST
It's not something that we picked up at Walmart 20 years ago and is now irrelevant to our lives.