Clashing Victimocracies
by Peter J. LeithartPolitics dissolves into brutality unless it’s infused with apolitical habits and virtues—humility, gentleness, forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, charity, love. Continue Reading »
Politics dissolves into brutality unless it’s infused with apolitical habits and virtues—humility, gentleness, forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, charity, love. Continue Reading »
Sexual love cannot be reduced to the simplistic categories of power, exploitation, and individual desire. Continue Reading »
For Christians, 1 and 2 Samuel are “history.” For Jews, they are among the writings of the “Former Prophets.” But the books can also be read as wisdom literature, especially when we recognize that biblical wisdom is royal wisdom. What follows is a sampling of the many lessons about good and . . . . Continue Reading »
Jews and Power by ruth r. wisse schocken, 256 pages, $19.95 Ruth Wisse is a distinguished scholar: professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard, author of the classic 1971 study The Schlemiel as a Modern Hero, and editor of several anthologies of Yiddish prose and poetry, much of . . . . Continue Reading »
On first reading of Culture Wars, James Hunter’s study of America’s social divisions, I was greatly impressed. On reading it again, I am still impressed, but there are points at which I wanted Hunter to go a bit further, to push home his central theme with a bit more fervor, and to . . . . Continue Reading »
the wind's blown stars to powder in the sky's blueso the morning's pale and clear, soft as breath,those are storms' leavings,these horizons swept clean. we fill, we empty we connect and retract and sometimes each dream, every cell . . . . Continue Reading »