While Jews often seem clannish to outsiders, the reality is somewhat different: we have always suffered from a divisive streak of self-destructiveness. As far back as the levelling of the Temple and the expulsion from the homeland, Jewish unity has been undermined by both class divisions and theological disagreements. read more »
Politics
Trudeau's Green Jihad Holding Canada Back
Coming from a country that may soon choose to be led by either a cognitively challenged second-rate codger or a vengeful lunatic, one would like to look north, to Canada, for some inspiration. read more »
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Xi Jinping Emerges As the Winner from San Francisco
Xi Jinping should have entered San Francisco’s Apec conference with his tail between his legs, but instead has emerged as something closer to the king of the world. read more »
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Could War in Gaza Sink Joe Biden?
American politics is often said to follow James Carville’s notion that ‘it’s the economy, stupid’. And the economy could well still determine the winner of the 2024 presidential election. read more »
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Europe is Burning
Ever since the earliest days of the Republic, American intellectuals, artists, and statesmen looked to Europe for models. read more »
Democrats Should Think Twice About Gavin Newsom
Nobles always need jesters, reliably entertaining for the self-satisfied set. In modern America no politician better fits the bill than California Governor Gavin Newsom read more »
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Is the West Ready for World War 3?
In case you missed the memo, we are apparently entering the first phases of World War 3. Or, if you count the Cold War, World War 4. read more »
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Will Jews Return to the Ghetto?
It is a warm Monday morning in Rome, and the city’s ancient ghetto resembles an armed camp. As carabinieri line the streets, a cloud of melancholy hangs in the air: not only had more than 1,400 Jews recently been slaughtered in Israel, but the date — October 16 — marks the anniversary of its residents forced evacuation to the concentration camps. History, it seems, is repeating itself. read more »
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Many of Hollywood and Silicon Valley Jews Are Silent on Israel
Back in the early days of California’s ascendancy, the state was described as “the Jews’ early paradise”, a place where the lack of social norms, and enormous opportunities, were ideal for enterprising people read more »
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Samuel Huntington was Right: Cultural and Religious Clashes are Driving War Today
History is rearing its ugly head, and it would best not to look away. Time to put away our foolish utopian dreams and face the harsher, more divided world, predicted in Samuel Huntington’s 2011 book read more »
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