Those who attack Jews attack the West
The two American academics, Mearsheimer and Walt, who caused a stir some time ago with a modern re-working of an old conspiracy theory are back with a book on the same theme: the “world Jewish conspiracy” line deployed by 1930s fascists is back in a new guise as the “Jewish lobby” that allegedly exerts too [...]
The accidental Enlightenment
Here’s a depressing thought from Oliver Kamm:
I make no confident predictions of the resilience of Enlightenment values, largely because the Enlightenment itself is so recent and contingent a development. Its spread in the 17th and 18th centuries was to a large extent bound up with the fortunes of Protestantism. The Enlightenment’s advocates in England, Scotland [...]