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 Anti-Jewish Roots of John Rawls’s Political Philosophy
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
Long before he became one of the most influential liberal theorists of the 20th century, John Rawls was an aspiring Episcopal priest, writing an undergraduate thesis on sin, grace, and salvation. Eric Nelson demonstrates that the arguments in that thesis are recapitulated, in secularized form, in Rawls’s major philosophical work, A Theory of Justice—written after Rawls had cast aside his Christian faith. In the earlier work, Rawls rejects the supposition that righteous deeds can ever merit divine rewards; in the later, that hard work and ingenuity can ever merit earthly rewards.
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.