The FBI’s Gratuitous and Futile Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Death
Ignoring terrorists who murdered Americans, while making hay over the accidental death of a Palestinian journalist.
November 17, 2022
For the Expressive Individualist, Other People Are Just a Means to Self-Fulfilment
The ethics of the advice column.
Surveying 25 years of Carolyn Hax’s tenure as the Washington Post’s advice columnist, Devorah Goldman considers the ethical underpinnings of her supposed wisdom. She takes as an “archetypal example” the case of a woman who finds bringing her children to visit their estranged father’s mother a tiresome chore:
November 17, 2022
Menachem Begin’s Minyan and Israel’s Future
The meaning of the first majority-Orthodox government.
For the Expressive Individualist, Other People Are Just a Means to Self-Fulfilment
The ethics of the advice column.
The Life, Work, and Wanderings of Abraham Ibn Ezra
A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”
What Israel Gains from Reconciliation with Turkey
Despite their differences, the two countries both see Iran as a threat.