Iran Is Playing a Risky Game in Iraq
It can be dangerous to set your neighbor’s house on fire.
November 12, 2019
A New History Undermines Atheists’ Pretense of Rationality
Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers.
Today’s atheists and agnostics, like many of their precursors, usually claim that their unbelief flows from logic and science, whereas the religious worldview is based on blind or benighted faith. Arguments in favor of religion, they assert, are merely cases of subordinating reason to emotion. In Unbelievers, a history of atheism that focuses on Europe around the time of the Reformation, Alec Ryrie paints a very different picture. Nick Spencer writes in his review:
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Avigdor Liberman Has Confronted Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu with a Prisoner’s Dilemma
Even as he has created one for himself.
When Politicians Condemn the Evils of Finance, Even Jewish Leftists Should Be Wary
When Elizabeth Warren talks of private-equity “vampires.”
A New History Undermines Atheists’ Pretense of Rationality
Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers.
The Return of the Jews to York
Eight centuries after an infamous massacre.