It isn’t hard to understand why an alliance between leftists and Islamists would make this move: if you’ve hit a plateau in your number of supporters and you can’t win more to your cause, you can at least disseminate finely-tuned propaganda that divides the supporters of your opposition.

Perfect for 10 PM on a Friday or 9 AM on a Tuesday.

My first poem in seven years.

We tend to conflate personal holiness with constant effort. And while personal holiness does indeed require actions and not just words, I think our conflation of personal holiness with nonstop effort still—in a way—gives us a distorted view of G-d and our relationship to Him. We begin to think of G-d as a father whose love is conditional upon our meeting certain expectations, and if we fail to meet those expectations, then He’ll no longer love us.

To be a “postliberal” conservative is to be someone who seeks to rediscover and excavate a conservatism that emerges from a deeper strata of Western civilization—pre-Enlightenment—and draws legitimacy from a more ancient and teleological epistemology beyond and apart from the classical liberal framework that gave birth to the fake conservatism you and I have been exposed to for practically our whole lives.

In striking Iran, against all external pressures not to, President Trump has—in his second term—become the most courageous president of my lifetime and probably the most courageous president since Teddy Roosevelt.