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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…
The Singularity of Singularities: From Global Totalism to Hashem Echad
The acceleration of history has reached a velocity where the old laws of social and political physics no longer apply. We are approaching what mathematicians and physicists call a singularity—a point where a function takes an infinite value and the predictable rules of the universe break down. Yet, for the…
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…
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…