Tag: J.L. Talmon

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…