The Trump Administration Adopts a Sensible Policy on Israeli Settlements
An unwritten agreement.
April 3, 2017
What a New Biography of Yitzḥak Rabin Illuminates
A life with consequences.
Reviewing Itamar Rabinovich’s recent biography of the Israeli statesman, Dennis Ross notes his own “surprise” at how much he—who as an American envoy to the Middle East had regular interactions with Prime Minister Rabin—learned from reading it. Ross comments on the behind-the-scenes attempts, brokered by Washington, to open negotiations between Jerusalem and Damascus, which broke down just as talks with Palestinian leaders paved the way to the Oslo Accords:
April 3, 2017
Whither the Jewish Vote?
The political views of American Jews in an uncertain future.
What a New Biography of Yitzḥak Rabin Illuminates
A life with consequences.
Lessons from Utah about Religion, the Welfare State, and the American Dream
Does the Mormon church make economic mobility possible?
Don’t Declare Secularism Victorious, Yet
But don’t figure on a neo-Puritan sexual counterrevolution.