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Artemy Magun on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic

These are difficult, perilous, and frustrating times. Many cherished beliefs are coming unraveled. Many once-shared values are no longer shared. And distrust of unshakeable institutions is widespread. Yet it was only a little more than three decades ago that North America and European intellectuals joined in acknowledging the triumph of the Western world’s “gift” to

Oppressed peoples usually strategise to emancipate themselves through assimilation with the dominant culture around them. This is what Jewish intellectual leaders, from Bruno Bauer, Marx’s competitor, to Theodore Herzl, Zionism’s theoretical founder, advocated as well....

Middle East News: Zionism was one response to the centuries-old oppression faced by Jews. Like many such responses across cultures it decided assertiveness is a better

Middle East News: Zionism was one response to the centuries-old oppression faced by Jews. Like many such responses across cultures it decided assertiveness is a better

From the blog of Josh Appel at The Times of Israel

Twenty-nine landmarks were damaged in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Odesa in the early hours of July 23, Ukraine’s Information Policy Ministry said on July 23.

Robert Fine, who died on 9 June 2018, was a socialist writer unafraid to stand up to much of the left’s received wisdom on the questions of Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism. He opposed the “absolute anti-Zionist” standpoint that one should unreservedly object to (a) Israel’s very existence, rather than the oppressive practices of the Israeli state, and (b) any feelings of Jewish communal or national identification with Israel, even when such feelings are accompanied with harsh condemn...

Cosmic Anchor: The Reality of Divine Law by Patrick Henry Reardon

NASA’s long in-development ARTEMIS lunar space missions completed its first phase last month. The idea is to land someone on the moon in two years. Then from there, head to Mars. And the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is helping out.