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Harvard University Widener Library. In 2017 Harvard started black-only college graduations. Do universities even value freedom of speech anymore?

Cognitive dissonance

A most politically significant manifestation of cognitive dissonance occurs every day in democratic societies, and it has disastrous effects on their foreign and domestic policies.

Alexis de Tocqueville would say that we deserve Anthony Weiner.

Education9 years ago

Rescuing America from Nihilism

We live in “age of atrocity” as well as in “age of stupidity,” an age in which “higher” education is steeped in Nihilism, a philosophy of...

The Damascus Road. An apt illustration of how "Let's pretend" is a dangerous game to play in diplomacy in the region.

World news9 years ago

Diplomacy: necessary facts

Political scientists fail to emphasize that whenever a democracy and a dictatorship negotiate publicly as equals, the dictatorship gains enormously. Such negotiation places these two...

The Signers would praise North Dakota today

Guest Columns9 years ago

Liberalism, genuine or decadent: moral crisis

We all know that moral decay is permeating what is now called “post-Christian” Europe. Our best informed commentators know that this decay has been propagated for...

Guest Columns9 years ago

Liberal democracy: boring, decadent, deadly

To understand why democracy today is boring and decadent one can hardly do better than consult Alexis de Tocqueville. His classic, Democracy in America, is more relevant...

The Torah, one of many documents defining a Jew, the nature of God, and the elements of faith. It could be the blueprint for a Godly Israel. And a key source of the rule of law in Israel--or it should be. Is the ingathering of the Jews in the offing? But these Jews must turn to God, Whom their leaders, and the public in Israel, seem to have forsaken. (What parallels exist between Judaism and George Lucas' Jedi ideal?) It names many heroes, including Abraham and Sarah.

Creation Corner9 years ago

The Torah and medicine

In The Secret Life of the Jew (1930), Rabbi David Miller writes: “In the Pharmacological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University … it has been recently established,...

PGA and politicians take note! And everyone else, consider taking out some insurance.

Executive9 years ago

Driver’s licenses for illegal aliens

Now that the elections are behind us, we as citizens must ensure that the legislators know how we view issues of importance. When one considers the...

The Knesset: 61 years of parliamentary democracy, and counting, in Israel. But do its members properly love their country? Or does the dysfunctional way Members are chosen, with their election rules that do not conform to Jewish law, lead to a pointless scramble for patronage? A new Manifesto calls for radically reforming the way Israel picks Members of this body. Furthermore, terms like right and left, as in other parliaments, mean little when no one will articulate first principles.

Executive9 years ago

The Enemy Within (1995)

On March 31, 1995, ten years before Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Yitzhak Rabin was Israel’s Prime Minister, and Shimon Peres was his Defense Minster. On that...

Guest Columns9 years ago

Middle Ages: a lesson

Some secularists believe that if modern Israel were to adopt a Constitution based on Jewish principles and values, the country would revert to the Middle Ages. ...

Voter fraud was still difficult with these Print-O-Matic voting machines. But the color red would still be a useful sight to see.

Media9 years ago

Democratic elections

The campaigns for the forthcoming January elections are descending on America. Let us review some basic ideas about democratic elections, for which purpose we can do...