In the same web-article, Alterman also noticed, analyzing the game Count Bruehl – Philidor, F, 0 – 1, London 1783, that Philidor understood very well modern concepts like: power of passed pawns ; bad and good pieces ; space advantage ; open files ; pawn structure ; importance of center.

The magazine also published a very critical article about Hillary Clinton's health care plan by Elizabeth McCaughey, an article that Alterman called " the single most influential article published in the magazine during the entire Clinton presidency ".

In 2008, Alterman also became a regular columnist to the Jewish magazine Moment, where he writes regularly about Jewish issues.

Alterman has also criticized Steve Jobs for his avarice and for never giving any of his wealth to poor people.

In 1933 Shlonsky founded the literary weekly Turim, which was identified with the " Yachdav " society in which major poets Natan Alterman and Leah Goldberg were also members.

* Ash ( portrayed and voiced by Steve Alterman )-The clumsy keyboardist of Kidd Video also plays bass and saxophone

During the 1950s, Alterman was opposed to the martial law imposed at the time on Israel's Arab citizens ( until 1966 ), and was also strongly supportive of workers ' struggle such as the 1952 sailors ' strike which was suppressed by the Ben Gurion Government.

" In support of this, he referred to " the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero .... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book — a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen — part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere — corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence — will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.

Also in 2008, Alterman published a lengthy essay in the New Yorker on the decline of American newspapers and the future role of new media news sites.

In contrast to conservative media commentators, Alterman argues that the press is biased against liberals rather than biased in their favor.

* " The American News Media: Media Bias, with Eric Alterman & Tucker Carlson " – a debate between Eric Alterman and Tucker Carlson about media bias.

: The Truth About Bias and the News is a book by columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias.

Alterman argues that the media, as a whole, is not biased liberally, but conservatively.

* Eric Alterman, media critic, author of " What Liberal Media?

" According to CUNY journalism professor Eric Alterman, “ Nothing has been as consistent about the past 34 years of TNR as the magazine's devotion to Peretz's own understanding of what is good for Israel … It is really not too much to say that almost all of Peretz's political beliefs are subordinate to his commitment to Israel's best interests, and these interests as Peretz defines them almost always involve more war.

* Contempt for the mainstream establishment, in particular for public figures who, in his view, gain mainstream respectability by criticizing those to their left ; targets have included The New York Times, President Barack Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, the late academic Irving Howe, and some of his colleagues at The Nation, including Marc Cooper, David Corn and Eric Alterman.

Israeli grandmasters such as Boris Alterman play for Rishon.

Alterman was and remains a critic of Ralph Nader for Nader's actions in the 2000 U. S. Presidential Election, arguing that Nader is to blame for the election of George W. Bush because of vote splitting.

* Eric Alterman on Kabuki Democracy at the Brennan Center for Legal Justice, April 2011

* Eric Alterman and Neera Tanden discuss Kabuki Democracy at the Center for American Progress, February 1, 2011.

* Eric Alterman speaking at Strand Bookstore in New York City on May 6, 2008, as part of his 2008 book tour for Why We're Liberals.

* Eric Alterman speaking at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, on March 27, 2008, as part of his 2008 book tour for Why We're Liberals.

* Eric Alterman speaking at Authors @ Google on March 25, 2008, as part of his 2008 book tour for Why We're Liberals

* Eric Alterman speaking at Cody's Books in Berkeley, CA on March 25, 2008, as part of his 2008 book tour for Why We're Liberals

* Eric Alterman speaking at Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, on Factors of Ethical Presidential Leadership, Jan. 30, 2008

* Eric Alterman: A Sharp Wit Plus a Sharp Pen Make for a ' Distinguished ' Career Fall 2007

An extreme example is the song " Eliphelet ": to a halting melody in a minor key by Sasha Argov, the song ( lyrics by Natan Alterman ) tells of a boy " without a penny's worth of character ", who is killed in combat for an unthinking error of judgment.

Alterman played on two early demos that were later included on the album Paying for the Summer of Love, before joining another band.

Columnist Eric Alterman, in a book review of The Race Beat ( 2006 ) for The Nation discusses how Carter and other Southern journalists were " moderate defenders ", of the South.

* In 1992, the Alterman Prize for the novel A Thousand Hearts ;

Guests included presidential candidate John Edwards, author Eric Alterman, reporters from The Nation magazine and commentators from The Center for American Progress.

After the Six-Day War, Alterman was one of the founders of the Movement for Greater Israel, finding himself in alliance with right-wing activists whom he greatly opposed in earlier times of his career.

* Eric Alterman – American liberal journalist

* " The American News Media: Media Bias, with Eric Alterman and Tucker Carlson ," UC Santa Barbara.

* 1993: Eric Alterman: Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics

Alterman is credited with bringing the seeds of the marmande tomato to Israel, where it was the main species cultivated in the country until the 1960s.

In his poem, Alterman describes a scene similar to the Biblical Revelation on Mount Sinai, where the Jewish People is waiting to receive the Jewish state, as the Israelite were waiting to receive the Torah.

Up until the late 1960s, the magazine had a certain " cachet as the voice of re-invigorated liberalism ", in the opinion of Eric Alterman, a commentator who has criticized the magazine's politics from the left.

Under him the section has been " simultaneously erudite and zestful ", according to Alterman, who adds, " Amazingly, a full generation later, it still sings.

In 1942, when the first news about the Holocaust reached the Zionist Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine, Alterman wrote a poem, which can be described as a sarcastic paraphrase on the Jewish prayer, " Praised are You ... who has chosen us out of all the nations ".

That cachet, Alterman wrote, " was perhaps best illustrated when the dashing, young President Kennedy had been photographed boarding Air Force One holding a copy ".

The group's lineup initially included lead guitarist Brian Alterman, whose guitar riffs have been compared to that of The Byrds.

" One of the reasons segregation had been a success, Alterman explains, is "... the way newspapers had neglected it.