Danny Abdul Dayem, a British activist whose family is from Syria, showed a videographer around a makeshift clinic in Homs earlier this week. In the video, he is unshaven and scruffy, wearing a dark, padded jacket, and his voice is thick with emotion. “Lo

A few weeks ago New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier discarded his usual pose as a cranky, polysyllabic intellectual demi-god and wrote a shockingly intelligent piece on the rise of fundamentalist fanaticism in Israel. Among other things, Wieseltier said

Last, the latest issue of TNR has a brief diarist essay by Leon Wieseltier. The essay is notable for its intensely sharp and justly imposed critique of the latest excesses of ultra-religious forces within Israeli society, and the politicians who fail to

The phone is ringing at Melody Record Shop in Dupont Circle. Charlie Manning, a buyer and manager who has worked at Melody for 32 of its 34 years, answers. “Did you hear about everything? We’re closing the store.” Pause. “There’s a closing sign out front

The Tikvah Fund is hosting an evening with Yuval Levin and Leon Wieseltier tomorrow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on "America, Israel, and the Future of Liberal Democracy." Here are the details: Young professionals and college and graduate

I thank R.R. Reno for pointing us to Leon Wieseltier’s essay on Alex Rosenberg’s exercise in reductionism, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. (And yes, Edward Feser’s review was a real pleasure as well.) Reviews like this do us a double service: while the