Iran Just Took a Strategic Step Closer to China
Why the Shanghai Cooperation Organization matters.
October 5, 2021
In Identity Politics, Old Religious Ideas Live on in a Post-Religious Society
“Christianity’s walking dead.”
The 19th-century French writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the thinkers of the generations before him were wrong in their expectation that religion would slowly wither away, noting drily that “the facts do not fit this theory at all.” At almost two centuries’ remove, Joshua Mitchell notes that “religious zeal” indeed persists—but not exactly in the way Tocqueville expected:
October 5, 2021
September Was a Very Bad Month for Hamas
Now Israel must take advantage of its gains.
Remembering the Massacre at Babi Yar and the Holocaust of Bullets
“God saved me and took me out of the ghetto.”
In Identity Politics, Old Religious Ideas Live on in a Post-Religious Society
“Christianity’s walking dead.”
How Jewish Was Alexander Hamilton? And How Anti-Semitic Were His Contemporaries?
A new biography musters extensive circumstantial evidence that the founding father was born a Jew.