Why Should the President Pretend that Iran Is Complying with the Nuclear Agreement?
To certify is to lie about one of the gravest matter of U.S. national security.
October 11, 2017
A Distinguished Professor’s Ignorant Take on Adam and Eve
Truth, fiction, and John Milton.
In The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt traces the history of the Hebrew Bible’s account of the first man and woman, presumably built from similar tales in ancient Babylonian literature, through interpretations of the story by St. Augustine and John Milton, to the Enlightenment critique of creation, to the modern scientific understanding of human origins. Marilynne Robinson, in her review, argues that Greenblatt demonstrates a woeful misunderstanding of Milton’s theology and approach to the Bible—to which a sizable portion of the book is devoted—as well as a failure to read Genesis as it might have been understood by the ancients. More importantly, she writes, he misses the point:
October 11, 2017
The Idea of “Occupation” Has Become a Weapon in the Hands of the Palestinians
And a central tenet of their national identity.
A Distinguished Professor’s Ignorant Take on Adam and Eve
Truth, fiction, and John Milton.
Croatia Is Trying to Erase Its Participation in the Holocaust
More than collaboration.
Simon Schama’s New History of the Jews Has Little to Say about Judaism
Eurocentrism and confusion about the holy.