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Is the Ballot a Three-Card Monte? A Response to My Readers
In response to my previous article on "Political Idolatry," several readers raised important concerns. Many agree that the system is flawed and not aligned with Torah principles, yet they worry that a mass withdrawal from voting would hand victory to the Left and forfeit real gains: new roads in Judea…
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…
Up From Zionism!
In 1959, William F. Buckley Jr. published Up From Liberalism, a piercing dissection of an American elite that had become intoxicated with its own virtue. He described a liberal class that preached freedom while practicing coercion, a group that prioritized engineered social progress over eternal truths, and who believed that…
Virtue, Vaccination, and the Disease of Coercion
The Tyranny of the 'Greater Good' In the tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a seismic shift occurred in our public discourse. The language of health, once focused on personal well-being and medical guidance, morphed into a vocabulary of moral obligation, social utility, and, ultimately, coercion. A stark line was…
The Tyranny of Tolerance: How an Enlightenment Error Is Tearing Israel Apart
A recent, thoughtful critique of the idea of a "Jewish Compassion Deficit Syndrome" raised a crucial point about the pragmatic necessity of distinguishing friend from foe. Why, the commenter asked, should we hold an Arab village that supports Zionism to a different standard than our political allies? Why demand a…