Israel, June 2024
by Mark BauerleinGabriel Brahm joins the podcast to discuss life in Israel after October 7. Continue Reading »
Diagnosing Disaster
by R. R. Reno“Why Did We Destroy Europe?” It’s an arresting title, chosen by Michael Polanyi for a 1970 essay that looks back on the conflagrations that consumed Europe between 1914 and 1945. (The essay can be found in Society, Economics & Philosophy, a posthumous volume of selected papers by . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding to the Anti-Israel Encampments
by Mark BauerleinGabriel Noah Brahm joins the podcast to discuss the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative and the Israeli perspective on the campus unrest in the United States. Continue Reading »
What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About
by Carl R. TruemanThe exaltation of youth protests is the elevation of ignorance and incompetence. Continue Reading »
Easter, Creation, and Holiness
by George WeigelEaster faith summons us to think of ourselves as creatures capable of eternal life, and we can experience that life now. Continue Reading »
The Devil’s Face in Gaza
by Gerald McDermottThe face of Satan was on display during the October 7 attacks, and the war in Israel has brought vast change to Israeli society. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousLiel Leibovitz’s article “Fight Together, Win Together” (December 2023) is a stirring encapsulation of the dark side, so to speak, of intersectionality’s ideological ascendancy within western academic institutions. Two questions stand out to me after reading the piece. Several groups of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Mystery of Israel
by Sohrab AhmariThe “mystery of Israel”—that’s what Jacques Maritain called Israel’s endurance as the people of the Old Covenant, its indomitable insistence on Jewish particularity over and against the universal claims of Christianity. Through the ages it has been a source of both legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
Israel at War
by Shalom CarmyIn reading this intelligent, useful, and timely book, I was reminded of the challenges I and some of my fellow students encountered back in the Vietnam era. Our intention was to get invited to various synagogues where we could present Jewish law perspectives on the morality and practice of war. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Israel Under Attack
by R. R. RenoEditor R. R. Reno is joined by Liel Leibovitz to talk about his article, “Pagan Hamas” from January 2024. Continue Reading »
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