Obtaining Calm in Gaza Might Not Be Worth the Cost
Hope, not despair, motivates Palestinian terror.
June 24, 2021
How Competition and College Admissions Harm American Families
Little platoons.
“To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections,” wrote the great British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke. His intent was to defend what later political scientists would label “civil society” or “mediating institutions”—families, churches, bowling leagues, volunteer organizations, and other units that bring people together independent of the government. From this observation, Matt Feeney derives the title of his recent book Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age. Alan Jacobs writes in his review:
June 24, 2021
Ben Rhodes Sees America’s Evils Everywhere and His Own Mistakes Nowhere
The world Ben Rhodes made.
How Competition and College Admissions Harm American Families
Little platoons.
The EU May Finally Be Forced to Face the Truth about Palestinian Education
Europe has been funding anti-Semitism and the glorification of terrorism in schools.
A Newly Published List of Surnames Reveals the Diversity of Alexandria’s Vanished Jewish Community
One of the Diaspora’s oldest.