Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Need a Nuclear Program
Nor should it get its own version of the Iran deal.
March 8, 2018
A New History of the Arab World Gets the Story Right—Until It Comes to Jews and Christians
An Oxford historian has absorbed anti-Semitic prejudices.
First published in 2011, The Arabs: A History, by the Oxford Professor Eugene Rogan, has recently been issued in a revised and updated edition. Luma Simms finds it a useful book that admirably covers much ground in a single volume, but one that hews too closely to deeply flawed analyses that have become standard in academia. When it comes to the Middle East’s Jews and Christians, Rogan’s blind spots are particularly noticeable.
March 8, 2018
Why Guatemala’s Embassy Move Matters
A small country does the right thing.
Bipartisan Support for Israel Is Crumbling, and There’s Little AIPAC Can Do about It
A near-impossible problem.
Steven Pinker Shortchanges Both the Enlightenment and Religion
A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.
A New History of the Arab World Gets the Story Right—Until It Comes to Jews and Christians
An Oxford historian has absorbed anti-Semitic prejudices.