Gaza’s Fake Humanitarian Crisis
And those who have an interest in perpetuating it.
June 21, 2017
The Supreme Court Should Strike Down Missouri’s Ban on State Funds for Religious Institutions
End the Blaine amendments.
The Supreme Court will soon issue a verdict in Trinity Lutheran of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, a case in which a Missouri church qualified for a state grant to renovate its playground but was denied because the state’s constitution prohibits giving any funds to religious institutions. The clause in question is known as the Blaine amendment, after the 19th-century Republican congressman who proposed it; although his campaign to do so failed on the federal level, nearly two-thirds of all states adopted such amendments. Explaining the historical context, Philip Hamburger argues that the Supreme Court should strike down Blaine amendments everywhere:
June 21, 2017
No, Daniel Barenboim, the Holocaust Didn’t Create Israel
The musician as historian.
The Myth of the Lone Wolf Terrorist
A term that helps to ignore a problem.
The Supreme Court Should Strike Down Missouri’s Ban on State Funds for Religious Institutions
End the Blaine amendments.
Józef Wittlin, Forgotten Chronicler of L’viv
What he shared with Isaac Babel.