Tehran’s Hubris
“For all of Iran’s success in cultivating militant groups across the Middle East, there are tangible signs that it has overreached.”
June 8, 2022
Warren Harding’s Zionism
The 29th president was largely apathetic toward American Jewish causes, but remained proudly supportive of the Zionist movement.
President Warren Harding is perhaps best known for the Teapot Dome Scandal, in which his secretary of the interior was sent to prison for having accepted bribes. He also appeared largely indifferent or even hostile to American Jewish interests; for example, he spearheaded the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which sharply limited the number of Jewish immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Yet, as Saul Jay Singer explains, “his enthusiastic support for the Balfour Declaration . . . established an important precedent for American Zionism and played an important role in the birth of Israel.”
June 8, 2022
America’s Post-Religious Right
“The new secular conservatives and the old religious right are bound together in an uneasy partnership.”
Israel Resumes Offshore Natural-Gas Exploration
Europe can no longer rely on imported Russian gas.
Warren Harding’s Zionism
The 29th president was largely apathetic toward American Jewish causes, but remained proudly supportive of the Zionist movement.
When Columbia University’s President Welcomed the Nazi Ambassador to Campus
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning college president’s troubling silence during World War II.