How Israel and Its Allies Could Have a Positive Influence on the Biden Administration’s Iran Policy
Washington shouldn’t make concessions without asking for something in return.
November 25, 2020
A New Science-Fiction Movie Explores What Happens When the Future Goes to War with the Past
Tenet and the tenets of progressivism.
The philosopher Leo Strauss, in one of his most significant essays on Judaism, contrasts the modern West’s understanding of progress with the Jewish aspiration for t’shuvah, or return (often imprecisely rendered as repentance). While one view sees perfection in an imagined future, the other hopes for a return to the past. It is an extreme version of the former view, perhaps, that was at work when rioters in Portland, Oregon destroyed statues of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Reviewing Christopher Nolan’s new time-travel film Tenet, Michael Weingrad is put in mind of that event, which occurred just a few days after he saw the film, and not far from his own home:
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Mike Pompeo’s Historic Visit to Israel Recognizes Realities, and Jewish Rights
A not-unprecedented trip to the Golan and a stop at a legal settlement.
Anti-Semitism Has No Place at the Pentagon
With Douglas Macgregor, Republicans have their own Ilhan Omar.
How the Mossad Saved a Biblical Deer Species from Iran
Snuck out just before the revolution.
A New Science-Fiction Movie Explores What Happens When the Future Goes to War with the Past
Tenet and the tenets of progressivism.