Israel Must Choose the Right Friends in Asia
India, Japan, and South Korea are better partners than China.
May 20, 2022
An Attempt to Demonstrate American Literary Racism Slights the Jews
Bad math, the digital humanities, and woke question-begging.
A practitioner of the trendy academic discipline of “digital humanities,” Richard Jean So sets out in his book Redlining Culture to use masses of data and complex statistical analysis to show the overwhelming racism of the American literary establishment in the second half of the 20th century. In their review, Mordechai Levy-Eichel and Daniel Scheinerman contend that So’s argument is not only “narrow and moralistic,” but rests on unsound assumptions and bad math. It also seems to have a blind spot vis-à-vis the Jews. (Free registration required.)
May 20, 2022
Elections in Lebanon Won’t Shake Hizballah’s Hold on the Country
The Iran-backed terrorist group is disappointed with the results, but will carry on nonetheless.
How Western Governments Tried to Nip Israel in the Bud
“Exposing the big lie that Israel was created as a Western colonialist outpost.”
An Attempt to Demonstrate American Literary Racism Slights the Jews
Bad math, the digital humanities, and woke question-begging.
What Jews Can Learn from John Locke
Religious toleration and its limits.