The sacred rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were once as secretive as the Skull and Bones. White-shirted missionaries knocked down doors across the Third World, Book of Mormon in hand, but the logistics of what came later were largely kept a mystery to outsiders. Closed-door “endowments” with hands appearing behind […]
Washington made a bet. Force hospitals to post their prices, the theory went, and a real market would form and pull costs down. Five years on, the files are posted. The market never formed. Prices never fell. The disclosed data now run to enormous scale. Yet when researchers examined the posted files, they could not […]
The Gaza war may have ended, but the genocide libel marches on. That libel, the false accusation that Israel and Diaspora Jews perpetrate genocide against others, allows anti-Zionists to invert the Holocaust, erasing Jews’ Holocaust victimhood and bestowing it upon Palestinians. And given this libel’s ubiquity, it’s worth understanding the libel’s origins, why it was […]
The sacred rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were once as secretive as the Skull and Bones. White-shirted missionaries knocked down doors across the Third World, Book of Mormon in hand, but the logistics of what came later were largely kept a mystery to outsiders. Closed-door “endowments” with hands appearing behind […]
The Gaza war may have ended, but the genocide libel marches on. That libel, the false accusation that Israel and Diaspora Jews perpetrate genocide against others, allows anti-Zionists to invert the Holocaust, erasing Jews’ Holocaust victimhood and bestowing it upon Palestinians. And given this libel’s ubiquity, it’s worth understanding the libel’s origins, why it was […]
Call me Ahab. For those of you unfamiliar with Scripture (my fellow Catholics are excused here), the first Book of Kings tells of King Ahab, who married Jezebel and led a sinful life, which triggered a devastating drought in Israel. Though my wife is no Jezebel, and I rule no land but my own suburban […]
