Fabricating the History of the Six-Day War
With little evidence, a new book blames war-mongering generals on both sides.
July 7, 2017
A Strong Sense of Nationhood Isn’t Just Compatible with Democracy, It’s a Necessity
The decline of the nation-state explains the West’s political crisis.
According to the regnant wisdom among academics and American and West European elites, nationalism is a fundamentally illiberal and exclusionary force; by contrast, the identities of various minorities are held sacrosanct. The result of these twinned ideas, argues Andrew Michta, is a disintegration of national and social cohesion that has contributed to the growing sense of political crisis in the West:
July 7, 2017
In France, Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred That Cannot Be Named
Lessons from the murder of Sarah Halimi.
A Strong Sense of Nationhood Isn’t Just Compatible with Democracy, It’s a Necessity
The decline of the nation-state explains the West’s political crisis.
Sex, Law, Religion—and a Secularist’s Morality Tale
A struggle between good secularism and bad religion?
Could an Italian Jew Have Created the Book That Baffled Researchers for a Century?
The Voynich Manuscript’s “mikveh” pictures.