Politics & Current Affairs
Of all the actors that have taken the world stage since October 7, the Houthis are surely the most surprising. Where did they come from and what do they want?
Two or three thoughts on the “dehumanizing” discourse.
Iran has sparked conflict across the Middle East over the last few months. What are its aims? Is it succeeding?
Images of bloodshed in Gaza should upset anyone with a healthy moral sense. But they don’t help determine whether the actions that brought these scenes about were ethical.
Interviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger’s attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.
Heinous violence meant to force everyone to choose sides has long been the recourse of a radical minority that fears time is not on its side.
The author of a new book stops by to discuss what he calls “the identity synthesis,” and how it affects Jews and Judaism.
How generations of Arab thinkers and leaders tried to turn the humiliation of their losses to Israel into a springboard to launch their nations into an enchanted new age.
The Israeli journalist stops by to talk about the deeper emotions at play on all sides of the current civil crisis, and how they can be addressed.
Will the administration’s new strategy to counter anti-Semitism camouflage its own inaction?
The D.C. veteran joins us to talk about what the government can do to fight anti-Semitism, and what, despite good intentions, it can’t.
What else but turn to the past in search of some historical precedents for the current situation, and of what was done successfully then.
The veteran foreign-policy analyst thinks the Biden administration is both strengthening Israeli security and facilitating the greatest threat to it. Can both be true?
The best bet to fight far-right anti-Semitism is to hope that America’s lapsed Christians return to the pews.