Commentary

01/01/2025

Freud concluded that warlike violence was characteristic of the entire animal kingdom and that mankind was no exception.

‘Is there a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?” That is the question that Albert Einstein put to Sigmund Freud in 1932 in the hopes that the

31/12/2024

The Lawn Bowling Scandal Is Much More Important Than It Sounds

Sometimes the events most worthy of our outrage can go woefully under-protested simply because they sound silly. The latest example comes to us from the wide sporting world of bowls.

31/12/2024

The World Bowls Tour disinvited qualifying Israeli players from the World Indoor Championship based solely on their nationality. Pressure groups bullied the bowls.

Sometimes the events most worthy of our outrage can go woefully under-protested simply because they sound silly. The latest example comes to us from the wide sporting world of bowls.

31/12/2024

Worst Case Scenarios and Great Sitcoms

On this holiday podcast, we offer cheer and warning in equal measure and then talk about...sitcoms and Christmas movies! Give a listen. Don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast on Apple

31/12/2024

So his book is above all, a testament of faith—faith in God and in science’s continuing to reveal Him. I see what he has done. And it is good.

In an age in which broad agreement is alarmingly scarce, there’s little question that most people in the West do share a similar conception of the workings of the universe. Whether

31/12/2024

The Don Pacifico affair is not the only aspect of Palmerston’s career worth rediscovering; his own approach to freedom and foreign policy has much to teach us today.

Henry John Temple, known more popularly as Lord Palmerston, was one of the great statesmen of the Victorian era, defined by his steadfast faith in the superiority of England among

31/12/2024

On this holiday podcast, we offer cheer and warning in equal measure and then talk about…sitcoms and Christmas movies!

On this holiday podcast, we offer cheer and warning in equal measure and then talk about...sitcoms and Christmas movies! Give a listen. Don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast on Apple

31/12/2024

It’s not often that a TV show not only nails the zeitgeist but anticipates it—that zeitgeist being the election of Donald Trump and concomitant rebuke of the Democratic political-cultural agenda.

It’s not often that a TV show not only nails the zeitgeist but anticipates it—that zeitgeist being the election of Donald Trump and concomitant rebuke of the Democratic political-cultural agenda.

31/12/2024

It’s tempting to look at momentous events in history as inevitable. It’s also common for the public to see the Mossad as some kind of all-knowing force playing God. But all of these missions had multiple hinge points over which Israel had no control.

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward a working air-conditioning unit. That’s one possible lesson from the revelations over the weekend about Israel’s incredible secret missions to

31/12/2024

Once hailed by the Economist as “the indispensable European,” Merkel finds her reputation melting faster than an ice sculpture at a summer garden party.

When the late-November publication date for Angela Merkel’s memoir was set months ago, who could have predicted it would follow hard on the heels of the German government’s collapse? And

31/12/2024

So perhaps the increased Jewish vote for Trump isn’t really a partisan shift. Trump is no more a traditional Republican than he is a traditional Democrat.
https://www.commentary.org/articles/jay-lefkowitz/jewish-vote-2024/

31/12/2024

When Anything Can Go Wrong, But Everything Goes Right

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward a working air-conditioning unit. That’s one possible lesson from the revelations over the weekend about Israel’s incredible secret missions to

30/12/2024

Donald Trump is enjoying something he has never experienced: a presidential honeymoon.

Donald Trump is enjoying something he has never experienced: a presidential honeymoon. The period of harmony began at 5:34 a.m. on November 6, when the AP called the election, and

30/12/2024

Gaza, Land of Make-Believe

Gaza is reality as narrated by the Brothers Grimm. Nothing is as it seems, and the truth is always darker than the way the story is popularly told. Last week,

30/12/2024

Hey, What Gen Are You From?

Today's holiday podcast questions concern how we Commentaryites define ourselves in terms of the generations we come from, and what indelible encounters we've had in our lives with meaningful people.

30/12/2024

For instance, starting a television empire like Dick Wolf’s Law & Order universe would be unthinkable today. And un-pitchable, too, in a room filled with Thorns.

Everyone who has ever tried to start a car that doesn’t want to start has heard the same thing from the people standing nearby. You turn the key, you pump

30/12/2024

Medical professionals who aren’t what they seem, working at hospitals that aren’t exactly hospitals, fits a general theme of this war.

Gaza is reality as narrated by the Brothers Grimm. Nothing is as it seems, and the truth is always darker than the way the story is popularly told. Last week,

30/12/2024

Today’s holiday podcast questions concern how we Commentaryites define ourselves in terms of the generations we come from, and what indelible encounters we’ve had in our lives with meaningful people.

Today's holiday podcast questions concern how we Commentaryites define ourselves in terms of the generations we come from, and what indelible encounters we've had in our lives with meaningful people.