President Donald Trump’s most consistent platform issue of immigration has frequently been labeled far-right or xenophobic due to his hardline positions on reducing illegal border entry and deporting undocumented residents in the United States. But now, several Western countries are…
Sports organizations on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have adapted an apocryphal Winston Churchill quote into their modus operandi: only after exhausting all other options will they do the right thing and protect women’s sports. The clock started…
In a world of angels, peace is natural. As a very old Jewish prayer asks, “May He who makes peace in His high places make peace for us.” What is meant, says one master, is that in Heaven, even the…
Washington and London are currently negotiating a tariff agreement. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump wants the U.K. government to repeal hate speech laws in order to secure a trade deal between the two nations, the Independent reported last…
“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare, King Lear Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World. This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North…
In the mediocre yet fun James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, series archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld auctions a laser weapon to the major superpowers by threatening them with devastation. He’s actually disappointed when Bond (Sean Connery) shows up at his…
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were: First in the race that led to Glory’s goal, They won, and pass’d away — is this the whole? A…
In the early 1990s, I visited Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s former home in the countryside of Kent in southeast England. Entering the house and traversing the grounds, I had a sensation of walking the footsteps of history, of imagining the great…
In his series on the Five Books of Moses, Covenant and Conversation, the late and justly lamented Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, wrote on the connection between sex, power, and violence. He noted how in Genesis and…
