The EU Must Stop Tolerating Hizballah
There is no “political wing.”
July 21, 2017
The Problem with Herman Melville’s Reading of the Book of Jonah
Where is Jonah’s remorse?
Toward the beginning of Moby Dick, the preacher Father Mapple delivers a sermon on the book of Jonah to a congregation of sailors. He poses the following question: in the long prayer offered by the prophet while in the belly of the fish, why does he never express remorse over his act of disobedience, or commitment to obeying God henceforth? And why does God answer this apparently inadequate prayer? Mapple concludes that it is admirable of Jonah “not [to] weep and wail for direct deliverance” but rather to accept that “his dreadful punishment is just.” While accepting the preacher’s question, Shalom Carmy finds his answer at best incomplete:
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What Does Israel Have against George Soros? Quite a Lot, Actually
An anti-Israel screed in the New York Times.
How the UK’s Labor Party, and Its Intelligentsia, Came to Accept Anti-Semitism
Israel has become a symbol of everything that’s supposedly wrong with the world.
The Case of the Cattle-Prod-Wielding Rabbis and the Proper Limits of Religious Freedom
Courts can punish religious violence without getting involved in the theological nitty-gritty.
The Problem with Herman Melville’s Reading of the Book of Jonah
Where is Jonah’s remorse?