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Tag: Frédéric Bastiat
Is Political Idolatry the Root of Israel’s Crisis?
To the casual observer, Israel’s political instability—the endless rounds of elections, the dizzying coalition horse-trading, and the persistent sense that government often acts against the will of its own people—appears as a series of unfortunate accidents or the fault of “bad leaders.” Viewed through the lens of Jewish history and…
Totalitarian Israeli Democracy in the Age of Reason
Imagine transporting two thinkers from the past to the corridors of the Israeli Knesset. One is Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century French economist, whose treatise, The Law, reads like a contemporary critique of the proceedings. The other is J.L. Talmon, an Israeli historian from the 1960's, whose life's work charted the…