The Russian Navy’s Plans for the Middle East
What a new maritime strategy means for Israel.
September 22, 2022
The (Implicitly) Jewish Character Who Serves as the Moral Anchor in “The Women”
A new look at Clare Boothe Luce’s hit play and film.
A sensation when it was first staged in 1936, Clare Boothe Luce’s play The Women was made into a highly successful film of the same name three years later. Its portrayal of a well-to-do-woman facing an unfaithful husband on the one hand and a circle of ungenerous and backstabbing friends on the other provides a fairly dim view of the female condition. In his analysis, Michael Weingrad points to a character who stands out from the rest:
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The Emir of Qatar’s Dissimulation about the Muslim Brotherhood
A not-very-plausible denial.
A New Book Exposes How Some Christian Denominations Have Embraced Anti-Zionist Anti-Semitism
And dismantles myths about evangelicals.
The Earliest Evidence of the Use of Opium, Discovered in a Canaanite Tomb
Likely a 14th-century-BCE cultural import from Egypt.
The (Implicitly) Jewish Character Who Serves as the Moral Anchor in “The Women”
A new look at Clare Boothe Luce’s hit play and film.