American Grand Strategy, Why Kissinger Got Peacemaking Right and Carter Got It Wrong, and Israel’s Turkey Problem
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a threat to Israel. But Iran is a bigger one.
December 3, 2019
The Agency That Fights Religious Persecution Abroad Shouldn’t Also Fight Religion
Or “abuse of religious belief.”
Founded by an act of Congress in 1998, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) makes policy recommendations to the president and State Department about how to help those suffering religious persecution across the globe. One of its nine commissioners recently resigned to protest possible congressional efforts to reform it that would leave it bureaucratically hamstrung. Clifford May, himself a former commissioner, explains why he believes the proposed changes to be wrongheaded:
December 3, 2019
Don’t Allow Arab States to Inherit the Property of Expelled Jews
Will they drive out and also inherit?
The Anti-Jewish Roots of John Rawls’s Political Philosophy
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
The Agency That Fights Religious Persecution Abroad Shouldn’t Also Fight Religion
Or “abuse of religious belief.”
A Rare 3rd-Century Synagogue, and Its Even Rarer Mosaic
In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.