The U.S. Has Managed to Force a Stalemate in the Syrian Civil War, at Least for Now
A quagmire for the Russians.
July 3, 2020
How the Campus Crusade against Israel Suppresses Freedom of Speech and Open Inquiry
A cheap ploy made life hellish for a Jewish professor.
In 2015, a group of students at Connecticut College drove the philosophy professor Andrew Pessin off campus, aided by faculty and administrators who were more than willing to throw him to the wolves. Pessin’s crime? First, he commented on the intolerance of fundamentalist Islam at a panel discussion about the Charlie Hebdo killings; then Khandaker dug up a Facebook post from the previous year in which Pessin compared Hamas to a “rabid dog.” Elliot Kaufman, reviewing a recent book on the affair, comments:
July 3, 2020
The EU’s Feeble Attempts to Stop Funding Palestinian Terror, and the Outraged Palestinian Response
A sense of entitlement.
How the Campus Crusade against Israel Suppresses Freedom of Speech and Open Inquiry
A cheap ploy made life hellish for a Jewish professor.
For Religious Ritual to Confront Death, It Must Step Outside of Reason
Finding the rationale for the nonrational.
Piecing Together an 8th-Century Letter from a Jewish Merchant in China
What might be the earliest extant document in modern Persian.