You could despise Trump and believe he has bungled every aspect of this war and still recognize the immense value of degrading the threat of a genocidal regime that is rabidly anti-American.
How a Mark Twain passage at our Passover seder led me to reflect on the themes of envy and Jewish self-esteem.
As the hours and minutes ticked off on Tuesday, and an anxious world waited for the 8PM EST showdown, rumors began to fly that perhaps the Persian civilization wouldn’t die that night after all.
In contradistinction to those whose intact moral compass tells them that violently attacking another human being is immoral regardless of identity categories, the progressive imagination doesn’t find immorality in the act of violence at all. It locates morality in identity, not conduct.
Every generation decides – whether it will build something different – or become “Egypt” again
Terrorists terrorize. Governments are left with little choice but to respond in kind.
There really are no compelling substitutes in the secular world for communism, or its progressive 21st-century permutations, which is why it endures and attracts despite the best efforts at education.
We are the people who said, three thousand years ago, that no human ruler is God. And tyrants have never forgiven us for it.
