Is Donald Trump Following in Barack Obama’s Footsteps in the Middle East?
The same people seem to be in charge.
March 20, 2017
Has American Culture Lost Touch with the Hebraic Political Tradition?
Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.
In the unusual prologue to his film The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille tells the audience directly that the “theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God’s law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses. Are men the property of the state, or are they free souls under God?” Meir Soloveichik laments the absence today of similar references to the roots of the American political tradition in the Hebrew Bible:
March 20, 2017
Egypt Is No Longer the Lodestar for the Arab World. But It Still Matters
And the U.S. must try to prevent it from collapse.
Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Revisited
What an influential essay gets right, and wrong.
Why Did the IDF, Accused of a War Crime, Conceal Evidence?
Some civilian deaths from 2009 weren’t Israel’s fault.
Has American Culture Lost Touch with the Hebraic Political Tradition?
Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.