Iran’s Role in Israel’s Gaza Dilemma
Islamic Jihad serves as a distraction from the northern front.
May 15, 2019
Daniel Bell: Jewish Conservative and Jewish Radical
A son’s reflection on the centennial of a great New York intellectual.
The prominent sociologist and writer Daniel Bell, who died in 2011, would have celebrated his one-hundredth birthday last Friday. In a thoughtful reminiscence, his son David A. Bell argues that his career was characterized by a constant, creative tension between radicalism—absorbed from the Yiddish-speaking socialists of his childhood on the Lower East Side—and a fundamentally conservative temperament. But the latter, writes the younger Bell, was as much a product of deeply held Jewish commitments as the former:
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Giving Hamas More Territory Won’t Bring Peace, or Cure Gaza’s Woes
The “New State Solution” solves nothing.
The New Reality of Progressive Anti-Semitism
Intertwined with Islamists.
Daniel Bell: Jewish Conservative and Jewish Radical
A son’s reflection on the centennial of a great New York intellectual.
Eurovision and the Zionist Dream
Why a cheesy competition with bad music and outrageous costumes matters.