Tehran’s Hubris
“For all of Iran’s success in cultivating militant groups across the Middle East, there are tangible signs that it has overreached.”
June 8, 2022
America’s Post-Religious Right
“The new secular conservatives and the old religious right are bound together in an uneasy partnership.”
The intensity of current political fights over parental rights in public schools, free speech on college campuses, abortion, and other culture-war touch points is, in Nate Hochman’s analysis, a product of “the decline in organized religion.” Pointing to a drop in church membership among Republicans that appears to have coincided with the rise of Donald Trump’s political fortunes, Hochman suggests that the former president tapped into a grassroots “energy” that was “primarily a reflection of the nonreligious right.” The future of American conservatism, he argues, may in part depend on how much the religious right, which came more slowly to support Trump, is willing to concede to its secular partners.
June 8, 2022
America’s Post-Religious Right
“The new secular conservatives and the old religious right are bound together in an uneasy partnership.”
Israel Resumes Offshore Natural-Gas Exploration
Europe can no longer rely on imported Russian gas.
Warren Harding’s Zionism
The 29th president was largely apathetic toward American Jewish causes, but remained proudly supportive of the Zionist movement.
When Columbia University’s President Welcomed the Nazi Ambassador to Campus
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning college president’s troubling silence during World War II.