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Israel-Palestine
Trump and the Promised Land

Paradoxically, Trump may prove to be the President who is willing to exert unprecedented pressure on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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American Innovation
ARPA-E on the Chopping Block

For a U.S. economy reliant on innovation for growth, cutting the energy breakthrough agency would be disastrous.

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Sex and Secularism
So What’s With All This Solemnity?

It’s easy to exaggerate the importance of secularism in America, though the values of sexual life have certainly been secularized.

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Testimony
My Pivotal Role in Iran Contra

What “they” don’t want you to know.

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Thrillers
The Way We Live Now

George Walden’s “Tony Underwood” trilogy reveals truths only fiction can tell.

Global Culture
Victims International

America has exported many a cultural influence around the globe, including its victimology.

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Social Ills
What Inequality Doesn’t Mean

Is inequality a death sentence for the American republic? Two recent books vigorously argue both sides of the case—with the naysayer pulling out ahead.

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Broken Vessels
300 Years of Theodicy

How can God, who is all-powerful, refrain from stopping the suffering of the innocent? The question is perennial.

defense
A Larger Fleet Is Not Enough

Expanding the navy is a good idea, but only in service of a strategy to ensure U.S. dominance at sea.

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Purim
Looking for Wisdom in a Deranged Palace

The story of Purim begins with a debauched, bloody-minded despot and ends with a triumph of solidarity. A tale of Persia in the time of the Second Temple, it resonates today.

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