Fabricating the History of the Six-Day War
With little evidence, a new book blames war-mongering generals on both sides.
July 7, 2017
Sex, Law, Religion—and a Secularist’s Morality Tale
A struggle between good secularism and bad religion?
In Sex in the Constitution, Geoffrey Stone—formerly dean of the University of Chicago’s law school—explains how the American legal system dealt with attempts to regulate sexual relations from colonial times until the present day, giving particular attention to the ways legislation regarding sex ran up against the religious freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Andrew Koppelman finds the book “a remarkably clear articulation of a very common [but] crude view of the appropriate relation between politics and religion”:
July 7, 2017
In France, Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred That Cannot Be Named
Lessons from the murder of Sarah Halimi.
A Strong Sense of Nationhood Isn’t Just Compatible with Democracy, It’s a Necessity
The decline of the nation-state explains the West’s political crisis.
Sex, Law, Religion—and a Secularist’s Morality Tale
A struggle between good secularism and bad religion?
Could an Italian Jew Have Created the Book That Baffled Researchers for a Century?
The Voynich Manuscript’s “mikveh” pictures.