What the Skeptics Can Learn from the Wedding Canopy in Abu Dhabi
As usual, the experts get things backwards.
October 21, 2022
Why Vienna’s Latest Attempt to Come to Terms with Its Anti-Semitic History Falls Flat
Lueger Temporary is little more than an “elementary-school collage.”
On Vienna’s famous Ringstrasse there stands a twelve-foot-tall bronze statue of Karl Lueger, who served as the city’s mayor from 1897 until his death in 1910, and did much to give the city its current form. A leader of the staunchly Catholic Christian Social party, Lueger was one of the very first successful politicians to make anti-Semitism a key plank of his political platform. The anti-Jewish fervor of Lueger’s loyal voters, more than anything else, convinced Theodor Herzl that the Jews would never find enduring security in Europe.
October 21, 2022
How Middle Eastern Studies Went Wrong
Hijacked.
Iraq’s Political Woes Could Put Iran on the Defensive
But could also lead to a consolidation of Tehran’s control.
It’s Unlikely That the Rabbis Tried to Undermine the Story of a Talmudic Heroine
The “Bruriah episode” and a medieval scribal error.
Why Vienna’s Latest Attempt to Come to Terms with Its Anti-Semitic History Falls Flat
Lueger Temporary is little more than an “elementary-school collage.”