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Why We Will Miss Angelo Codevilla
The political philosopher Angelo Codevilla was taken from us on September 21, at a time when America has particular need of him. No one I have known combined such...
T. S. Eliot and the Jews
There recur in the work of T. S. Eliot two obsessions that make one cringe: his Jew-hatred and his contempt for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The first is sometimes excused as...
The Original Nation
How to Fight Anti-Semitismby bari weiss crown, 224 pages, $20 Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in Franceby marc weitzmann houghton mifflin harcourt, 320 pages, $26 No one views...
Pagan Horror
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reichby eric kurlanderyale, 448 pages, $35 That Hitler and his inner circle were mad is not a matter of controversy. The...
A Misty Reel
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition? by David Nirenberg Norton, 624 pages, $35 n World history is the history of Israel, averred Franz ?Rosenzweig, meaning that the nations of the West...
The Divine Music of Mathematics
It is consoling to think that the emotions that music arouses in us have something to do with the makeup of the universe. The eternal relation of math and...
Messianic Restraint
Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 n This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has...
Wagner’s Incestuous Narcissism
The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first bars of the prelude—an insistent, agitated gesture in the lower strings—the planks...
Elective Antipathies
Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau Reaktion Books, 189 pages, $16.95, paper n Simone Weil continues to fascinate. Civilization could be saved, she contended, only by a Platonic Christianity stripped...
Can We Know What We Know?
Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol by Javier Leach Templeton, 188 pages, $19.95 n A man is like a carpenter, mused Tevye the milkman; for a...
Why We Can’t Hear Wagner’s Music
Late in the nineteenth century, men and women in apparent possession of their senses heard Richard Wagner’s new operas and announced that their lives had changed forever. Charles Baudelaire...
Something Israel Cannot Do
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Two Souls in One Breast
The German Genius by peter watson harpercollins, 964 pages, $35 What went wrong in Germany? How did the country with the world’s best universities produce the worst political regime...
Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians, Disappointing Bishops
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Germany’s Multicultural Failure
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