Observation ·
Should English Change Its System of Pronouns?
By PhilologosIn a recent column, the eminent scholar John McWhorter celebrates a linguistic revolution in the offing. But at what cost, and to whom?
Progressivism
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Observation ·
The Crackpot Ideas of Yiddish Fiction’s Most Improbable Scenarios Become Real
By Dr. Ruth WisseS. Ansky's radical yeshiva boys used to seem unreal. But observing today's political scene has taught me to understand them.
Observation ·
The Clash Within Liberal Democracy: Israel, the United States, and the West
By Peter BerkowitzTo ease social animosities and heal political wounds, leaders and citizens in America and Israel must rededicate themselves to the principles of liberal democracy.
Observation ·
A Threat Assessment for American Jewry, Part One
By Dr. Ruth WisseWhich of the recent samples of anti-Semitism—on the street, on campus, in Congress, or in the clergy—is the greatest threat to America and the Jews?
Response ·
What Unites People of Faith across Religions, and Divides Them from Others
By David NovakThe Joe Lieberman example.
Response ·
The Disastrous Banishment of the Hebraic Spirit from American Public Life
By Wilfred M. McClayAccompanied by massive social pathologies that it can neither contain nor reverse, the emerging secular order is itself unsustainable.
Response ·
Atheistic Humanism vs. the “Message from Jerusalem”
By George WeigelAmerican culture is now dominated by people convinced that biblical religion must be expunged from the public square in the name of freedom, authenticity, and the Self.
Monthly Essay ·
The Message from Jerusalem
By Eric CohenAmerican society faces a deep crisis of meaning to which the city, and the idea, of Jerusalem has an answer. It is needed by Jews, and as much or more by Christians.
Response ·
As America Grows Less Religious, Can the Tocqueville Model Still Work?
By Richard SamuelsonThat is: can the separation of church and state function for an increasingly unchurched people whose secular passions rely on the exercise of state power?
Response ·
The Battle for Religious Liberty Will Be Won on the Field of Education
By Peter BerkowitzA striking correlation exists between the decay of liberal education and the belief that government should push American citizens toward progressivism.
