The China-Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal Might Be Less Than Meets the Eye
Riyadh still has many reasons to fear Tehran.
March 13, 2023
A Harsh Peace Treaty Didn’t Pave the Way for the Rise of Nazism
Setting the record straight about Versailles, Weimar, and Hitler.
Concluded in June 1919 by the victorious Allies, the Treaty of Versailles, which brought World War I to an end, was famously condemned by the economist John Maynard Keynes as a “Carthaginian peace.” Since then, it has become widely accepted in the West that the treaty’s cruel measures left Germany economically crippled and humiliated, paving the way for the collapse of the Weimar Republic (the new postwar regime the Allies helped to establish) and the eventual rise of Adolf Hitler. Conventional wisdom draws many lessons from this account, which is based on fundamental misunderstandings of the past, as Kyle Orton argues:
March 13, 2023
Why Mizrahi Jews in Israel Tend to Vote the Way They Do
And the pitfalls of overstating the “shared culture” of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.
Success, the World of Letters, and the “Brutal Bargain” of American Jewish Assimilation
Revisiting Norman Podhoretz’s Making It.
A Harsh Peace Treaty Didn’t Pave the Way for the Rise of Nazism
Setting the record straight about Versailles, Weimar, and Hitler.
American Universities Are Rehabilitating a Convicted Terrorist
Sami al-Arian’s return to respectability.