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Many say please don’t pay attention to Glen Greenwald and Tucker Carlson. That is a reasonable instinct. But Tucker Carlson’s audience is vast—far larger than most of us want to believe—and his messaging travels. It settles into…

The Chazon Ish connected the need for man to perfect his character traits in order to refine his perception of the world. The goal is to be guided by one’s “Sechel,” or intellect, so that he will be able to get closer to Hashem.

He…

It’s pub day for actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch as she debuts her memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker. The book has received extensive advance…

I write from the Gulf, where this war is not an abstraction. The morning after the first Iranian salvo, colleagues scrambled for flights out of airports. Insurance premiums quadrupled overnight. When your office sits within missile range of…

Most Western explanations of Iran start in the same place: colonialism, anti-imperialism, or the country’s rivalry with the United States and Europe. Those forces are real and they matter. But they do not explain the inner logic of the…

Perfection is the enemy of growth.

That is a lesson I never expected to learn so deeply. For many years, I was too busy searching for myself to realize that growth often comes through imperfection.

When we are young, we often believe we can…

For two decades, one document stood between Iran and the bomb — at least in diplomatic terms. Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatwa against nuclear weapons was cited in international negotiations, referenced by Western analysts, and treated by some…

The late Bella Abzug aroused strong reactions. “She was loved and definitely hated,” says her daughter, Liz, in a succinct summation.

A brash and flamboyant American social activist and politician who served in the House of…

Over the last several posts, we have considered two principles questions or themes. The first was whether an individual can be Hispanic and Jewish. The second and third posts took us on a detour of sorts considering the matter of Jewish…

The strategic space linking the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean is increasingly operating as a single geopolitical theater in which maritime security, infrastructure connectivity, and supply-chain governance converge….