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by | Mar 15, 2025

I just finished teaching a six-week course that was an introduction to the Talmud. Having spent years in its study,…

by | Mar 13, 2025

During his speech at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance summarized a European totalitarian impulse that has been…

by | Feb 24, 2025

The U.S. government has no business running a newsroom. Voice of America (VOA), launched in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda,…

by | Feb 23, 2025

While researching my doctoral dissertation on the origins of the Nazi political police, the Gestapo, I had occasion to review…

by | Feb 23, 2025

In the mediocre yet fun James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, series archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld auctions a laser weapon…

by | Feb 22, 2025

Vice President J.D. Vance has been widely criticized in the mainstream media, both at home and abroad, for his remarks…

by | Feb 22, 2025

I was recently taken aback by a lengthy piece that I read (very oddly) in The Wall Street Journal. Jacob…

by | Feb 21, 2025

Dear Ms. Mackenzie and Mr. McKay, I am writing to you after hearing your podcast on JD Vance’s speech at…

by | Feb 21, 2025

Vice President JD Vance’s speech on Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech…

by | Feb 21, 2025

It is springtime in the West. This moment recalls the words of Poland’s Cold War-era philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, who asserted,…

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