American Politics
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Why Does Religion Need Commandments?
What is the point of the myriad commandments governing every aspect of a Jew’s life? Why does…
Notes from the Sibling Society
The “snowflakes” problem is not really a snowflakes problem: It is the result of an absence not…
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…
Conscience of a Kennedy
A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…
Diversity and Meritocracy, Together
Do our elite universities prize academic merit? Or are they more concerned to achieve diversity? Most of…
Air Turbulence and the Resurrection
If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…
Xi Jinping’s Village
In Liangjiahe, a small village in central China, visitors can tour the sites that formed Xi Jinping.…
The Weak Lead Us to Reality
Summer in the Forest, Randall Wright’s documentary on Jean Vanier and his L’Arche communities for the disabled,…
Stephen Hawking, Surprised by Joy?
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot got in trouble when she tweeted on March 14, the day of…
BDS Has Failed
I am a rabbi who is often asked how to improve Christian relations with Jews. I’m grateful that…
City of the Chosen
Welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138! We’re a college town, home to Harvard, MIT, and a very large…
Fenton Returns
The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fentonby joseph clifford fentonedited with…
Raw Stuff
The End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes…
Lama Sabachthani
Laid in a humble binof barley, not feed corn,tonight a Child is bornto save us all from…
The Ignoble Lie
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs…
