Gabriel 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 »
The exaltation of youth protests is the elevation of ignorance and incompetence. Continue Reading »
Something is wrong. Throughout the West, people are angry, anxious, and discontented. Paradoxically, the ill temper arises amid wealth unimaginable to our recent ancestors. (But perhaps this is not a paradox after all. Recall 1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”) . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this year, a Seattle-based journalist named Tariq Ra’ouf took to social media to explain the logic behind the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been rocking American cities for months. “We are going to inconvenience every single person who doesn’t give a f**k until they give a . . . . Continue Reading »
The 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 »
In 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 »
We live in paradoxical times. Over the last two generations, college students, especially at top-ranking universities, have been educated to believe that there is no transcendence. Human beings are a bundle of instincts, they’re told, or software in meat hardware, or some other reductive . . . . Continue Reading »
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Liel Leibovitz to talk about his article, “Pagan Hamas” from January 2024. Continue Reading »
The church statements tend toward pacifism, and if we are pacifistic in the face of Hamas’s unrelenting evil, then we will abandon God’s creation to the forces of death and destruction. Continue Reading »
Israel is at war, but these past few days of witnessing the love and gratitude of all who volunteered fill me with a bit of peace. Continue Reading »
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