The Western Media Are Complicit in Hamas’s Propagandistic Displays
Willing participants in the sick theater of the hostage releases.
February 19, 2025
Dostoevsky’s Religious Imagination
Are there moral crimes, or just violations of arbitrary rules?
At the heart of today’s Philologos column is one of the greatest literary explorations of religion of the past 500 years: John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Perhaps the only work to rival it since in this regard is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Gary Saul Morson, who in Mosaic explored the contrast between Dostoevsky’s moral sensitivity and his anti-Semitism, here explores the Russian writer’s approach to faith—so profound that Jews too must learn from this anti-Semite. In the novel, Ivan Karamazov attempts to write an article about the idea that he finds most disturbing:
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Israel Withdraws from Lebanon, but at What Cost?
The IDF sent a message to its enemies to the north this week.
A Supreme Court Case Could Make State-Funded Jewish Schools Possible
All depends on whether charter schools are public or private.
Being an American Jewish Writer after October 7
And the literary anti-Semities who ban their own books to spite Israel.
Dostoevsky’s Religious Imagination
Are there moral crimes, or just violations of arbitrary rules?