The Lenten season has begun, which for Catholics is a time of prayer, fasting, and abstinence. A friend suggested I give up alcohol for Lent. And maybe I can give up breathing too. I jest—people have given up far more and for a lot longer. Which brings me to Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik, who reviews
… What do you think of the assertion that it is precisely the most proper type of meat that Jews avoid eating?… I heartily agree with it, but I have another question. Do they abstain from eating pork by reason of some special request for hogs or from abhorrence of the creature? Their own accounts
A book-length collection of 81 op-eds written over a period of seven years by a single author should not be readable. And in most writers’ hands it wouldn’t be. While Peggy Noonan’s latest book, A Certain Idea of America, fits that description, it is instead a compelling read that brings moral clarity to a tumultuous
John W. Miller’s The Last Manager might sound like the kind of overcooked title you slap on a clickbait article, but the bold assertion has merit. Once upon a time, managers mattered. Then free agency and analytics handed the keys to the players and the nerds in the front office, and suddenly, the guys in
Less than a month ago, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas supposedly ended “pay for slay,” the infamous program through which Abbas uses a ballooning share of his authority’s budget to pay terrorists and their families. On Thursday, those terrorists lined up at the PA’s post offices to get their money as usual. The unimpeded flow
The imploding relationship between Ukraine and the United States has upended global politics. Ukrainian forces are still slogging it out against Russian invaders without U.S. intelligence and weapons deliveries, even as President Trump tries to halt Moscow’s attacks with threats of tariffs and new sanctions. The Europeans are trying to cobble together alternatives to American
‘It is just like a money laundering scheme,’ expert tells the Free Beacon Joe Biden speaks on Earth Day (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency has no ability to track or conduct oversight of more than $650 million in taxpayer funds that a Biden-backed green group wired to dozens of credit union accounts last