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October 23, 2006
New issue of Azure
Azure - the always-interesting Israei policy journal - has a new issue out much of which you can read for free online. Some highlights:
A book review by Kesher Talk's own occasional contributor Benjamin Kerstein. (More here.)
Uriyah Shavit claims that there really is historical precedent for democracy in the Arab world.
Armand Leferrere writes about the history of the philo-semitic French Huguenots. (Kesher Talk wrote about this very topic here, contrasting two European responses to Islamist intimidation.)
David Hazony explains why a system of law helps us create a just society, more so than good intentions. (In other words, the ends don't justify the means, the means are the means.) He also draws an analogy I am very fond of, relating religious "practice" to the "practice" needed to achieve any excellence that has a physical component. As us Jews like to say, We will do and then we will understand. (Gil Student and commenters critique this article.)
Judith | 10/23/06 at 09:35 AM | Categories: Eretz Yisrael
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If a Catholic ethos had been followed there wouldn't have been this Louis XIV nor would the state systeem have been supreme, or France particularly powerful; cf. discussion of Aldous Huxley's Gray Eminence in Spengler.
michael | October 23, 2006 10:55 PM
