“Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving the tact and mercy of the clothed?”
Are people rude because they are unhappy? Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving...
“Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he has been elected to serve and the stability he is pledged to insure”
Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he...
“…a basket is just the kind of zany, cheerful container that makes light of the deplorables while still putting them in their place”
In the United States, Hillary Clinton calls half the supporters of Donald Trump “a...
“…for those who believe that a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel, the Palestinians and the world, how exactly is one able to oppose settlement expansion without being labeled anti-Israel?”
For progressively-minded Zionists, our love for Israel is not the same as blanket support...
“The Trumpian rebellion against liberal democracy is not a local event; it is part of a disturbing global trend”
The Trump Presidency represents a rebellion against liberalism itself—an angry assault on the advances...
Main Street “unraveled in the 1960s and 1970s, as fair trade laws were repealed, manufacturers discovered overseas suppliers and unions came undone”
To save Main Street, state lawmakers in the 1930s passed “fair trade” legislation that...
“…despite the country’s fondness for aspirational rhetoric, our illiberal traditions have serious staying power, too”
As a point of strategy, it may behoove Democrats to embrace patriotic or nationalistic...
“I have been obsessed lately with trying to draw distinctions between what we call the moral, the political, and the partisan”
I have been obsessed lately with trying to draw distinctions between what we call...
“Through their sharp political interpretations of the Passover story, Rav and Shmuel described the political condition of the Jewish people long after the Exodus from Egypt”
In its transition from Joseph’s death to a new era, the book of Exodus...
“I find Pesach stunning for its integrating the particular redemption story of a particular people into a moral message that is universal; or the reverse, routing a universal story into the particular story of the Jewish nation”
I find Pesach stunning for its integrating the particular redemption story of a particular...