At America’s Best Universities, Biblical Religion Is a Curiosity, if Not a Menace
When an administrator at Columbia told Jewish students to violate Rosh Hashanah.
October 20, 2021
Vienna’s Most Controversial Statue Is of a Still-Beloved Mayor Who Wedded Anti-Semitism to Democratic Politics
Karl Lueger inspired Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler—in very different ways.
In the past two years, the United State has seen a series of controversies over the fate of statues of historical figures whose real or imagined sins have rendered them unfashionable. Just this week, New York City’s municipal government decided to remove a sculpture of Thomas Jefferson from city hall. The people of Vienna, influenced by the American example, have been dealing with a more complex case: the prominent likeness of Karl Lueger, who was the city’s mayor from 1897 to 1910. An immensely popular figure who did much to modernize the city, Lueger and his Christian Social Party also made anti-Semitism a key part of their political platform, and Viennese enthusiasm for Lueger did much to convince Theodor Herzl that Jews had no future in Europe. Liam Hoare explains:
October 20, 2021
While America Dithers, Iran Moves Closer to Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon
Time is on the mullahs’ side.
From Training in Post-World War II Germany to Fighting a Desperate Battle against Egypt, an Israeli General Tells His Story
The tank is iron, but the man is steel.
Vienna’s Most Controversial Statue Is of a Still-Beloved Mayor Who Wedded Anti-Semitism to Democratic Politics
Karl Lueger inspired Theodor Herzl and Adolf Hitler—in very different ways.
An Israeli Diver Discovered a Crusader Sword at the Bottom of the Sea
Encrusted in shells but well preserved.