What’s Behind the Palestinian Authority’s “Pay-for-Slay” Policy
Encouraging small-scale terrorism while keeping large-scale terrorism under control.
March 21, 2017
Daniel Deronda, Conservative Hero
A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”
Reviewing Ruth Wisse’s online course on George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Liel Leibovitz pronounces the lectures “as gripping as anything currently on Netflix” and suggests they “ought to be binged upon as ravenously as one would, say, on a season of House of Cards.” Eliot’s 19th-century novel, he argues, is particularly well suited for our times, and nowhere more so than in its two intertwined plots: the story of Daniel Deronda’s embrace of his Jewish heritage and the story of Gwendolen Harleth—a young, beautiful, and genteel woman faced with her family’s sudden impoverishment:
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Israel Pushes the Envelope in Syria
An airstrike against Hizballah triggers Syrian missiles and Russian ire.
Neil Gorsuch Will Likely Restore Religious Freedom to Its Rightful Place
A more expansive vision than Antonin Scalia’s.
Is Pope Francis Using Anti-Semitic Imagery in Criticizing His Opponents?
Too many authoritative Christian voices have greeted anti-Jewish rhetoric with silence, excuses, or applause.
Daniel Deronda, Conservative Hero
A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”