Winter 2025

Winning a war can prove as taxing as losing one. The swift 1967 Israeli conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—all that had remained of Palestinian non-Israeli territory after the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948—placed Israel into the …

Originally I had planned to devote this Letter to the internal situation in Israel—the socioeconomic gap and the Black Panthers, signs of corruption in high places, the New Class, and other strains facing a fundamentally egalitarian society that finds it …