October 7 exposed the failure at the heart of Netanyahu's life work. Everything since has been an attempt to bury it beneath larger disasters
HBO has made a movie about Bernie Madoff, the greatest Jewish American conman of all time, who carried out the largest Ponzi scheme in history. It's called – and does this remind you of anyone? – "The Wizard of Lies." In one scene, Madoff is interviewed in prison by Diana B. Henriques, the journalist on whose book the film is based. She asks, "If you didn't plan on killing yourself, or going into hiding, how did you think it would end?"