Fourteen Years after Reneging on an Agreement, the U.S. Condemns Israel for Violating It
The Biden administration’s hypocrisy over the Bush-Sharon letters.
March 28, 2023
A Psalm from an Elizabethan Poet
“How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be?”
Around the same time that Protestant scholars were refining and revising the translation that would eventually become the King James Bible, a young diplomat and poet named Philip Sidney (1554–1586) set to work producing a verse version of the book of Psalms, conforming to his own ideas about meter and prosody. Jospeh Bottum provides some background:
March 28, 2023
The Middle East Studies Association Reaps the Fruit of Its Own Politicization
Boycotts of Israel might explain falling membership.
How Bad Arguments Undercut Georgia Legislation against Anti-Semitism
Despite suggestions to the contrary, amending existing hate-crime laws doesn’t threaten free speech.
A Psalm from an Elizabethan Poet
“How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be?”
Medieval Jerusalem, City of Tolerance
Seven centuries of the ancient Jewish capital.