Mandel

In the tradition of Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven” and Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” Thien’s new work almost seamlessly integrates literary, historical and science fiction.

She wowed audiences and judges Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandel and Piers Morgan with her soulful rendition of Etta James’ “At Last.”

As Commentary’s Seth Mandel writes, “So Amnesty International dissents from international law. That’s fine. Just be up-front about it: Amnesty is not accusing Israel of ‘genocide,’ it is accusing Israel of a different crime which Amnesty has named ‘genocide,’ just so it could use that word.”

In fact, a few months into his Senate run, in February 2022, surveys of the GOP primary showed Vance polling in the single digits, trailing both businessman Mike Gibbons and Joshua Mandel, a onetime moderate who’d become an early imitator of Trump’s provocative style.

He called him “JP – JD Mandel,” confusing Vance with another Republican, Josh Mandel, who ran against Vance in the primary.