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Winter 5761 / 2001, no. 10


From the Editors:

The Year of Ruling Dangerously
By David Hazony


Essays:

Orde Wingate: Friend Under Fire
By Michael B. Oren
The new historians take aim at the father of the IDF.

The Supreme Court In Loco Parentis
By Evelyn Gordon
The court’s outrageous ban on spanking one’s child.

Secret of the Sabbath
By Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
It isn’t about R&R. It’s about how to be a creative human being.

The Brilliant Failure of Jewish Foreign Policy
By Ruth R. Wisse
For two millennia, Jews developed a method of survival in exile--which may also have led to their downfall.


Reviews:

Deciphering American Morality
Reviewed by Jeff Jacoby
One Nation, Two Cultures by Gertrude Himmelfarb

The Authoritarian Mill
Reviewed by Joel Schwartz
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control by Joseph Hamburger


Correspondence:

Hebrew Literature, American Zionism and more.


From the
ARCHIVES

The Gaza Flotilla and the New World DisorderINGOs are trying to reshape world politics at the expense of the nation-state.
The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look.
How Great Nations Can Win Small WarsIraq, Northern Ireland, and the secret strength of democratic peoples.
Lost Generation
Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership.

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