Smiling at my visible distress, my neighbor said he was surprised: did I really not know what was going on to Jews around us? But it’s our responsibility to stay.

When it comes to Israel, the longtime columnist, a bellwether for conventional American opinion on the Middle East, is stuck three decades in the past.

One of the greatest Jewish historians on the clash of civilizations that played out within the psyches of young Odessan Jews.

A new history of the American right seeks from the first page to alert the reader to what it is not about: the 40th president. But in the end conservatives can’t escape Reagan—nor should they.

Until now, the administration has failed to realize that America’s actions in one part of the globe have consequences in another. Can it change course?

That America still so passionately debates abortion marks the difference between the stagnation of Europe and the hopeful civilization of the United States.

The British writer joins us to think about the ideological battle over the Western tradition and the role Israel plays in that fight.

A Yale political scientist joins us to talk about esoteric writing and how to understand its relation to politics.

There is, unfortunately, nothing more human than most of the things called inhuman. That’s why in Jewish tradition “crimes against humanity” are thought of as crimes against divinity.

Lebanon’s recent elections make Hizballah seem weak. This week’s podcast explains why that’s misleading, and why it’s exactly what Hizballah wants the world to think.