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Contemporary military ethics are built around one central principle: Keep noncombatants out of warfare as much as possible. This principle imposes two major rules on fighting parties: Do not target noncombatants, and do not entangle your troops with the civilian population, so that it remains clear who are combatants and who are noncombatants. The 1977 […]

The laughs have been few and far between lately. Maybe that is why it felt so good when Leon Cooperman, the billionaire investor, blurted out on live television that “these kids at the colleges have shit for brains.” Mr. Cooperman, the first in his family to graduate college, took a big step toward achieving the […]

University administrators seem to be surprised that they have been incubating some of the leading and most active antisemites in America. In their reactions to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and then to subsequent outrages against Jewish students and campus communities, they seem mystified. Institutions so devoted to “safety,” “inclusion,” and “diversity” have […]

In the aftermath of Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre, a number of chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other student groups issued statements praising as “resistance” Hamas’s killing of babies, raping of women, and seizing of hostages — all of which violate the laws of war, not to mention basic human norms. We share […]

Of all the immediate reactions by Jewish thinkers to the massacres of October 7, was there anything more pathetic — I mean this in both the pitiable and derisive sense of the word — than the one from Joshua Leifer, a contributing editor for the far-Left publication Jewish Currents? “The loss, the tragedy — incomprehensible,” he wrote on X, formerly known […]

October 10, 2023 The events of the past several days have provided a tragic reminder of the enduring threats to Israel and the Jewish people. We pray for the safety of Israel’s soldiers and civilians of all backgrounds who are under attack, for the safe return of captives, for healing of the injured, and for […]

After a hostile takeover by conservatives of Florida’s tiny public honors college, so many students sought to transfer, a Massachusetts college took on 35 this semester alone.

It turns out that 'white people' often means Jews

More scenes from our political moment

The sun rose on October 7, 2023, like any other day, but by sunset, the history of the Jewish people had changed.

Some Jewish musicians are demanding that IfNotNow stop using their songs in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The House censure of Rashida Tlaib was an abuse of power, a denigration of the Congress and a successful political trap set by Republicans.

Palestinian and Israeli leaders of the Jewish-Arab social movement Standing Together are building the basis for a shared future, and they have a message for the US left.

Trump is the only Republican capable of navigating the post-Dobbs world.

The most consequential form of anti-Zionism today is the one that deploys guns and rockets.

Let's Talk About Last Night In Ohio by John Scalzi

If you’re not up on last night in Ohio, what happened was this: Ohioans voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution (Issue 1), by a margin that qualifies as “not even close,” and also voted to allow the use of marijuana in the state (Issue 2), by a slightly larger margin. […]

Not every act of resistance is justified.

All the more reason to defend genuine tolerance and free speech

Inauguration Day could be a national disaster.

In what may be the first known instance of combat occurring in space, an Israeli defense system destroyed a ballistic missile above Earth’s atmosphere.