How the Obama Administration Shielded Hizballah from Criminal Investigation to Protect the Iran Deal
Letting cocaine into the U.S. and weapons into Syria and Iraq while protecting Vladimir Putin’s favorite arms dealer.
December 19, 2017
Childrearing Involves Not Just Assigning Duties but Instilling a Sense of Duty
Finding Ben Sasse’s vanishing adult.
In The Vanishing American Adult, the Nebraska senator Ben Sasse diagnoses a general cultural malaise besetting today’s young people, and attributes it primarily to changes in attitudes toward education and child-rearing. Sasse’s prescriptions for remedying this situation involve, above all, giving children duties. In his review, the rabbi and Jewish theologian Shalom Carmy—drawing on the writings of Søren Kierkegaard—examines just how religion fits into the book’s argument:
December 19, 2017
A Normal Week in Jerusalem
Jerusalemites live on the brink of catastrophe, but refuse to step off.
Childrearing Involves Not Just Assigning Duties but Instilling a Sense of Duty
Finding Ben Sasse’s vanishing adult.
Seven Decades of Czech-Israeli Friendship
Prague, unlike Berlin, joined Washington in recognizing Israel’s capital.
The Yiddish Epic Poem “Kentucky” Shows Another Side of American Jewish Literature
The ballebos of the bluegrass.