Why Israel Should Invest in Jerusalem Arabs’ Education and Welfare
A policy based on empathy and pragmatism.
February 13, 2018
The Unshakeable Dogma That Underlies Modern Sociology
A social science with a sacred project.
In The Sacred Project of American Sociology, Christian Smith turns the discipline’s tools on its practitioners and arrives at the conclusion that sociologists, as a group, are committed not merely to the pursuit of truth about human societies but to a “visionary project” of human emancipation. Thus, any conclusions not in keeping with this project, which Smith likens to a religious orthodoxy, are dismissed out of hand. Richard Spady writes in his review:
February 13, 2018
In Syria, the Wars after the War Have Begun
For the U.S. and for Israel.
Tariq Ramadan, Long the Civilized Face of European Islamism, Now Faces Multiple Allegations of Sexual Abuse
An Islamist paragon falls.
The Unshakeable Dogma That Underlies Modern Sociology
A social science with a sacred project.
A Rare Mosaic Discovered in Caesarea
Underneath a Byzantine shopping mall.