The Knesset Has Resumed Its Business, but Both Sides Have Broken Unwritten Rules
Was Yuli Edelstein justified in keeping the Knesset closed?
March 27, 2020
Now Is Not the Time to Extend Sanctions Relief to Iran
The suffering caused by the coronavirus is the fault of the regime.
Last week, Bernie Sanders took to Twitter to call on the U.S. government to suspend some or all sanctions on the Islamic Republic, lest Washington be guilty of “contributing to [the] humanitarian disaster” brought about by the coronavirus. A similar case has been made by other opponents of the sanctions, but such arguments uniformly misunderstand why the effects of COVID-19 have been so severe in Iran. Danielle Pletka explains that not sanctions but the ayatollahs’ misallocation of resources lie at the heart of the country’s current public-health crisis:
March 27, 2020
Now Is Not the Time to Extend Sanctions Relief to Iran
The suffering caused by the coronavirus is the fault of the regime.
As with Past Plagues, Beware an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism
There have already been telling signs.
For Medieval Jews, Fantasies of Jewish Kingdoms Served a Polemical Purpose
A way to refute Christian claims that God had abandoned the Jews.
There Can Be No Freedom without Morality
As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.