Navigating the Egypt-Turkey-Russia Triangle
For Israel, more Russian influence in the Middle East is a danger—even if it helps a mutual ally.
October 28, 2020
Tolstoy’s Prescient Critique of Postmodern Sexual Ethics
Free love in Anna Karenina.
In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy tells the story of the adulterous romance between the title character and the dashing Alexei Vronsky. Experiencing true love for the first time, Karenina leaves her stifling marriage to a religious, conservative, and cruel husband, while Vronsky leaves behind his life of womanizing. Yet not all is happy in the relationship between these two consenting adults. Joshua Pauling sees in the novel a powerful corrective to Western morality in the era after the sexual revolution:
October 28, 2020
The Thin Line Separating “Anti-Racism” from Anti-Semitism
Taken to its conclusions, Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas make Jews a problem
The Islamic Republic’s American Allies
They represent the ayatollahs’ interests, not those of Iranian Americans.
The Halakhic Ramifications of a Coronavirus Vaccine
Weighing risks.
Tolstoy’s Prescient Critique of Postmodern Sexual Ethics
Free love in Anna Karenina.