Observation ·
October 7 and the Battle for the West
By Arthur HermanCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Arthur Herman is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the author of The Cave and The Light: Plato, Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (2013).
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
Last week, Mosaic ’s senior editor Andrew Koss spoke with Arthur Herman, the author of our June essay, about the possibilities and importance of the Israel space program. Read the transcript of their...
Monthly Essay ·
In the shadow of October 7, the story of Israel's rapidly growing space industry is easily overlooked. But it holds many of the keys for the nation's future survival.
Response ·
Anyone seeing the videos and hearing the experiences of Israelis last weekend had to be reminded of Nazi Einsatzgruppen (“action groups”) exterminating East European Jews after the invasion of the S...
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Response ·
I ’m very gratified that my essay on the desirability of a Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty (DTCT) for promoting U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation in the context of Israel’s growing ties with China...
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
In some ways, the two countries have never been closer, but in others, and notably with regard to China, they’ve never seemed farther apart.
Response ·
I was gratified to read the three thoughtful responses to my essay, “ Israel and China Take a Leap Forward—but to Where? ’’ Two of them, by the distinguished American policy experts Elliott Abrams and...
Monthly Essay ·
After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There's plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.
Response ·
If any other evidence were needed, the recent fires in, especially, Haifa bring home that the title of my essay, “ Everybody Loves Israel ,” was not to be taken literally. I stipulated as much at the...
Monthly Essay ·
Formerly neutral or hostile countries from across the world, including Saudi Arabia and China, are now eagerly courting the Jewish state. What's going on?
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.