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The totalitarian instinct is on the march again. This evil has accompanied humanity since time immemorial, but the West has evaded this danger since the end of World War II. Our respite is ending. Our ...

Sections 1 and 2 run 1,350 words. Feel free to skip Section 3 if the rest is too long. Section 3 runs 2,300 words. Feel free to skip sections 1 and 2 if Section 3 is what grabs you. If you are ...

There is a brief passage in the Book of Esther that serves as reminder to Catholic and other political leaders, judges, and other high officials and leaders, (not to exclude those of the clerical and ...

The book of Esther is a part of both the Jewish and Christian religious canons, referenced in rabbinic literature in the second century A.D and believed to have been written in the early centuries B.C ...

From Cotton Mather to Monica Lewinsky, a new book examines the ways the Purim story has been interpreted in the United States. This interview first appeared in the Jewish Week. Ivanka Trump and Monica ...