Qatar’s Baleful Influence Goes Far Beyond the Latest EU Scandal
Buying influence, funding terrorism, and spreading disinformation and anti-Semitism.
December 21, 2022
The Defense of Liberalism Requires an Understanding of Its Weaknesses
Leo Strauss’s reflections on the rise of Nazism.
In a 1941 lecture in New York City, the Jewish scholar Leo Strauss reflected on his experience as a university student in his native Germany in the 1920s as a way to introduce his American audience to the contrast between what he called “closed” and “open societies.” (Four years later, Karl Popper, another German-speaking philosopher of Jewish extraction, would popularize these terms.) Matthew Rose writes:
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The Decline of Middle East Studies—Then and Now
A critic of the field reflects on the criticisms leveled in 1979.
Canada’s Euthanasia System Turns the Vulnerable into Candidates For Death
Making suicide “socially acceptable.”
The Defense of Liberalism Requires an Understanding of Its Weaknesses
Leo Strauss’s reflections on the rise of Nazism.
Israeli Schoolchildren Discover a Two-Millennia-Old Oil Lamp
Just in time for Hanukkah.