This country has always been a big, beautiful land of contradictions.

Here’s what truly fresh thinking would look like instead.

Now Israel is fighting the war it planned for—alongside the one it refused to see coming and still hasn’t brought to an end.

“Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths, to incite to perjury or foster the resentments of war.”

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”