To Counter Iran Effectively, the U.S. Must Beat It at Its Own Game
Tehran emerged as the winner of the Arab Spring.
December 21, 2017
Paul Valéry Didn’t Think Much about the Jewish Question, but Couldn’t Escape It
He managed to move from the craven to the courageous.
In the midst of a long essay on the French poet Paul Valéry and his 1917 masterpiece La Jeune Parque (“Young Fate”), Paul Berman addresses his subject’s politics and attitude toward the Jews. Valéry, living through the Dreyfus Affair, the growth of French anti-Semitism after World War I, and then the Holocaust, couldn’t be ambivalent about the Jew’s fate:
December 21, 2017
Should Israel Be Preparing to Fight Terrorism, or a Full-Scale War?
The security dilemma.
My Rabbinic Colleagues Were Wrong about Jerusalem
Two-thousand years later, and it’s still not the right time?
Reza Aslan’s History of God Is Aggressive Atheism for the 21st Century
Doggedly universalistic, obligation-free, and relentlessly focused on self-revelation.
Paul Valéry Didn’t Think Much about the Jewish Question, but Couldn’t Escape It
He managed to move from the craven to the courageous.