Why Israel Must Stop Granting Legitimacy to the International Criminal Court
Take a page from Washington.
August 27, 2019
How Yuval Noah Harari Misunderstands What Makes Us Human
An account of homo, without the sapiens.
About a decade ago, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari abandoned his specialized study of the Middle Ages to write Sapiens, a brief history, from a decidedly mechanistic perspective, of the human species. He followed this with Homo Deus (published in English in 2016), in which he speculates about the human future in a coming age of artificial intelligence, genetic modification, and other technology that he believes will have fundamentally transformative effects. Examining both books, Roger Scruton notes that Harari’s contempt for religion is evident but not absolute:
August 27, 2019
Donald Trump Isn’t the President Who Accused Jews of Dual Loyalty
Discomfiting as his remarks might be, he can be counted on to side with Israel.
The Pro-Syrian, Palestinian Terrorist Group That Was Likely Struck by Israeli Missiles
One of Lebanon’s last armed Palestinian militias.
How Yuval Noah Harari Misunderstands What Makes Us Human
An account of homo, without the sapiens.
How Spain’s Assault on Its Jews Made Them Rethink the Relationship between Religion and Peoplehood
Mass conversion, purity of blood, and good Jewish families.