The late Midge Decter was a penetrating critic and a powerful writer. Her son joins the podcast this week to reflect on her legacy.
What Lucy Dawidowicz learned about the breakdown of social order and its effects on the Jews.
A lesson from Jeremiah.
The great Jewish realist.
One of the late sociologist’s many incisive essays.
A book that hasn’t lost its ability to appall.
The making of a neoconservative.
The rabbinic vs. the prophetic.
William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard and a leading American intellectual, talks to a group of young Israelis about his Jewish upbringing, his. . .
Worshipped by his students and vilified by his enemies as the founder of a shadowy neoconservative conspiracy responsible for the 2003 Iraq war, Leo Strauss. . .
A handful of Jews played key roles in helping William F. Buckley, Jr. found modern American conservatism. What set them apart from the mainstream of their coreligionists?