1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (750+ words) Just a few weeks ago, Michigan’s Democrat attorney general, Dana Nessel, addressed a gathering of Michigan Jewish Democrats. Nessel thought she had a winning message to these stunned Dems: Be selfless and virtuous! Even if your worries about danger to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (642+ words) If we take any lesson from the deadly struggles of the 20th century, it is to take our enemy’s ideologies seriously. Hitler’s opponents read their own motivations into him. But Hitler had been perfectly clear years before he seized power. In…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (300+ words) President Trump’s recent call for American Jews to mark a special national Shabbat in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence has thrust the Seventh Day into the center of political conversation. To understand Shabbat, however, one must first understand…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (753+ words) All stories are not equal. But we all equally live in stories. Who we are we know by the story we tell ourselves. We spin the points of meaning we meet into a yarn, and the yarn we weave into…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (944+ words) In the heat of a very intense nominating convention in 1964, Barry Goldwater addressed the issue of extremism. Goldwater’s thought challenges us. He said the words because they were true. As short-term expedients, they didn’t work. This misuse of terms is…...