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Summer 5769 / 2009, no. 37From the Editors:The Age of Catastrophic ThinkingBy Benjamin Kerstein Essays:Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just WarBy Asa Kasher Was Israel's conduct in its campaign against Hamas morally justified? The Biblical Origins of Equality By Joshua A. Berman The Torah as the constitution of an egalitarian polity. Controversy:Liberty’s ResilienceBy A.C. Grayling We should not invoke our own religious and political demons in order to repel those of our enemies. Fight Passion with Passion By Roger Scruton If we don't understand what we stand for, we will soon cease to stand for anything. Reviews:Blueprints for Empire BuildingReviewed by Shmuel Rosner God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead The Planetary Moralist Reviewed by Steven Grosby Memoirs: Hans Jonas edited by Christian Wiese The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions by Christian Wiese The Guru of Conventional Wisdom Reviewed by James Kirchick The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Correspondence:Menachem Mautner and Evelyn Gordon on the Supreme Court, and others. |
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 Job’s Path to EnlightenmentA new interpretation of the Bible's most enigmatic book. |
 The Gaza Flotilla and the New World DisorderINGOs are trying to reshape world politics at the expense of the nation-state. |
 Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty. |
 Israel's Electoral ComplexIsraeli politics needs a system overhaul. |
 Rammstein’s RageHeavy metal and the return of the Teutonic spirit. |