How Qatar Keeps Hizballah in Power in Lebanon
The unreliable mediator.
June 25, 2026
The War on the Jews and the War on America’s National Myth
What Barack Obama, Zohran Mamdani, and Tucker Carlson have in common.
Hatred of AIPAC and of the Jewish state is, of course, by no means a monopoly of the far left. And as much as right-wing Israel-haters in the U.S. trumpet their patriotism and claim to put “America first,” they—like their far-left counterparts—uniformly view America as a force for evil in the world. Josh Appel sees in these parallel worldviews a desire to undermine and blacken America’s founding myths, linking the New York Times’s “1619 Project” to Tucker Carlson’s claim that the United States backed the wrong horse in World War II. Appel sees the germ of these ideas in a speech Barack Obama gave in Hiroshima in 2016:
June 25, 2026
The Enemies of the Jews Are Solidifying Their Control over the Democratic Party
From the universities to the polling booths.
The War on the Jews and the War on America’s National Myth
What Barack Obama, Zohran Mamdani, and Tucker Carlson have in common.
Rare Photographs of Mandate Jerusalem Spark a Hunt for More
Chaim Weizmann, the Western Wall, and Winston Churchill in a family photo album.
Fanny Mendelssohn’s Musical Career, and Jewish Ambivalence
The woman who brought Bach to Italy.