What, Exactly, Would a Palestinian State Look Like?
A lot like the Palestinian Authority.
September 20, 2016
Leo Strauss’s Forgotten Letter Defending Israel
The best response to delegitimizers is engagement with Zionism’s founding texts.
In January 1957, National Review, then less than a year old, published a letter by Leo Strauss denouncing what he saw as the magazine’s anti-Israel stance and arguing that conservatives ought to support the Jewish state. Steven B. Smith extracts some important lessons for dealing with present-day assaults on Israel’s legitimacy:
September 20, 2016
Suing Saudi Arabia: Not a Good Idea
Don’t fight terror with torts.
Leo Strauss’s Forgotten Letter Defending Israel
The best response to delegitimizers is engagement with Zionism’s founding texts.
How Brexit Will Affect Israel’s Relations with Britain, and with Europe
And why Brussels lacks sympathy for Jerusalem.
Gustav Mahler, Genesis, and the “Judaic Aesthetic”
A musical analogue to the story of Joseph?