Essays
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The Neverending Conflict
Are the Palestinians Thinking the Unthinkable?

In secret negotiations, Abbas told the Israeli opposition leader he would be willing to give up the “right of return.”

Religion & Other Curiosities
Women in Shorts Studying Talmud

It is possible to approach the Talmud without affirming the truth claims it implies. However, to do so has a price—the loss of its deepest meaning.

West is Best
Putin Changing His Tune in St. Petersburg

Unlike last year when he was all bluster, the Russian President delivered a distinctly more subdued show at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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Brexit Countdown
Making Britain Great Again?

In its current frame of mind, Britain is headed for more decline whether it stays in or leaves the EU. But there’s nothing inevitable about that outcome.

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Shakespeare and Politics
Shakespeare’s Civic Art and the Politics of Poetry

People tend to confine Shakespeare’s political thinking to the plays, with the sonnets being a sort of autobiographical love triangle. Not so. The sonnets are at the heart of his civic-minded poetic project.

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944).
Dark Matter
Back to Back

James M. Cain’s one-two punch—The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity (1943)—gave us the film noir era, but was it art?

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Here We Go Again
What Orlando Doesn’t Mean

Every time a terrorist atrocity occurs in the U.S. or Europe, the same distorted and highly predictable nonsense pours forth from our media.

A Conversation With William Browder
Russia’s Plot to Smear Magnitsky

The Kremlin is attempting to undermine support for the Magnitsky Act, using a controversial Russian documentary.

Religion & Other Curiosities
New Atheists or Latter-Day Jacobins?

Both latter-day Jacobins and “godders” may agree on the facts, but will have opposite views on what should be done about the alleged facts.

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A Debate
Brexit: Good for the United States?

British citizens will be voting on June 23 on a question that will affect not just their political futures and Europe’s, but America’s as well.

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