Monthly Essays

For almost 100 years, appeasement of Arab violence has paid bloody dividends. The lesson has yet to sink in.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the original Hanukkah menorah was made from the spear tips of the Maccabees.

For Hashem, for country, and for Yale.

Jews vs. Rome bridges the great historiographic divide.

Philologos says farewell.

Leading thinkers confront the crisis of anti-Semitism and anti-Western ideology on campus—and explore how America’s universities might yet be renewed.

The historical roots of Israelis’ favorite political epithet.

Reading Homer in wartime.

France, Britain, and Canada pave roads to nowhere.

Many people are delighted to be told that Israel is doing to the Palestinians of Gaza exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe.

The problem with history is not that it has no lessons but that the ones it has can be read in opposite ways.

The unusual appellation testifies to the individuality of the character who bears it.

Mamad, mamak, mamam, mamats—how about some sleep?

Operation Midnight Hammer deals a blow to the anti-Western alliance.

Operation Rising Lion.

The rulers of the Gulf states are cheering every Israeli strike. But they now have less incentive to improve diplomatic relations with Jerusalem.

Moses, the muses, and an early-1960s Jewish magazine at Harvard.

A conversation with one of the highest-ranking observant Jews in the federal judiciary.