How America Bamboozled Itself on Iran
"Hoping that a seventy-five-year-old man will die soon is not exactly a sound strategy."
March 13, 2015
Islamic State’s War on Civilization
How IS is at once medieval and distinctly modern.
The Islamic State (IS) has recently released videos of its members smashing ancient Mesopotamian artwork and artifacts. Charles Hill argues that this destruction is not merely an act of medieval religious fervor that outrages Western sensibilities, but a manifestation of a distinctly modern war:
March 13, 2015
Islamic State’s War on Civilization
How IS is at once medieval and distinctly modern.
Why Should Israel Be a Nation-State at All?
Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.
At Last, a Novelist of Everyday Israel
And not of the Yehoshua Oz-David Grossman school of national soul-searching.
New Light on the Dead-Sea Scrolls
How new technology is being used to understand the scrolls.