President Biden Has an Opportunity to Change Course on Iran
Netanyahu’s warnings about the nuclear deal have proved prescient.
January 19, 2023
Cormac McCarthy’s Most Jewish Novels Have Little to Do with Jews, but Much to Do with Faith
The Passenger, Stella Maris, and scientism.
Last year, Cormac McCarthy released two novels with intertwined plots, The Passenger (named one of Mosaic’s books of the year) and Stella Maris. Their main characters are the brilliant siblings Alice and Bobby Western, whose father was a Manhattan Project physicist and who are, respectively, a troubled mathematical genius and a thrill-seeking salvage diver. Abe Greenwald writes in his review:
January 19, 2023
The Pitfalls of Holocaust Education in the Arab World
The UAE’s changes to its school curriculum are welcome—with a grain of salt.
Defending Judaism in a Postmodern Age
Leo Strauss, Benedict Spinoza, and Orthodoxy.
Fresh Evidence Comes to Light of the Earliest Known Mention of King David
New imaging of the Mesha Stele could resolve a controversy about what it says.
Cormac McCarthy’s Most Jewish Novels Have Little to Do with Jews, but Much to Do with Faith
The Passenger, Stella Maris, and scientism.