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Jocks Away

Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy's Jewish Jocks features some real life He-Menschen, but also a host of anti-jocks: tennis's first transexual player and the world record hot dog competition eater

December 17, 2012

Counterpoints·Judaism·Sport

A Vintage Year for Acting

A glut of superb performances in 2012 reflects a rising general standard in the actor’s craft

December 17, 2012

Art·Film·Modern Life

A pithy retelling of Europe’s darkest days

Norman Stone's new history of World War Two Manages to cover the conflict comprehensively in fewer than 200 pages

December 17, 2012

Books·History

Master and Commander

Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M Bell exonerates the wartime Prime Minister of his alleged military mistakes

December 17, 2012

Books·History·Military

1878 And All That

George Weigel's attempt to codify a new Evangelical Catholicism is controversial and idiosyncratic, but has plenty to commend it

December 17, 2012

Books·The Catholic Church

Posthumous Wisdom

A prodigious command of English, ingenious playfulness, an obsessive eye for detail: David Foster Wallace's essays trump his novels

December 17, 2012

Books·Literature

The Artistic Legacy of the Great War

The global impact of World War I changed the arts forever. Its effects are still felt a century later

December 17, 2012

Critique·Military·Music

Nations United in Hypocrisy

The UN general general assembly displays the limits of multilateralism as the debate on the Palestinians' observer status showed

December 17, 2012

Dispatches·Israel

Welcome to Obama’s Parallel Universe

Until Republicans convince voters that strong foreign policy is crucial to national security, America’s decline will continue

December 17, 2012

Features·Global Governance·International·US Politics·War on Terror

Why the West Can’t Do Business With Iran

Obama persists in trying to talk to a regime whose “sacred cause” is to replace a US-led world order with an Islamic one

December 17, 2012

Features·International·Iran·US Politics

Keynesians Fear the US Fiscal Cliff. I don’t

The conventional wisdom on fiscal policy doesn’t add up. A glance at the data and one realises that the media panic is unjustified

December 17, 2012

Economy·Features·US Politics

Writing and Rewriting the Bible in the Time of Jesus

Both Christians and Jews can learn from the reconstruction of the process by which unified scriptures emerged from diversity

December 17, 2012

Faith·Features·History

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