President Biden Should Learn the Lessons of Past U.S. Attempts to Solve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
When peace breaks out, the death count rises.
September 21, 2023
Theocracy Is No Cure for the Demoralization of Society
Lessons from the ayatollah.
As the United States becomes less religious, and is beset by a variety of concomitant social ills, a number of thinkers have sought out some alternative to present political arrangements in which the state will help more actively to restore moral order. Max Prowant acknowledges the appeal of such arguments, but points to the case of Iran—where Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established a regime with the goal of combatting secularization—as evidence of their weakness:
September 21, 2023
Academic Freedom, for Anti-Semites Alone
A hate-fest at the University of Pennsylvania.
Theocracy Is No Cure for the Demoralization of Society
Lessons from the ayatollah.
The Pilgrims, the Rabbis, and the Bible
Englishmen discovering Judaism, from the 17th-century Netherlands to the 20th-century Upper West Side.
How the First Yom Kippur in Japan Put an 800-Year-Old Debate to the Test
In the midst of World War II, a group of exiled yeshiva students posed an urgent question.