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Did Sondheim Destroy the Musical?

Broadway musicals were once the bastion of Jewish acculturation in America.  But, in his musicals, Jewish composer Stephen Sondheim swapped assimilation for alienation.Der Hobit

"For every Yiddish reader piecing together a difficult 19th-century text, there’s a language enthusiast trying to translate Tolkien.  Often, they are the same person."Reason, Revelation, and Revolution

America's founders have been characterized both as devout Christians and as militant secularists.  A new book argues that they remained believers in God, but revolted against the Bible. Obama’s Opportunity

"Obama now holds more cards than any American President in a long time: between the nightmare in Syria and the threat in Iran, Israel has never needed support from allies more than it does now." Are Christians the New Jews?

With Islamist attacks on Christians commonplace from Nigeria to Pakistan, Christians have replaced Jews as numerically the most persecuted people in the world.Hitler’s Philosophers

The idea that German philosophers were to blame for the rise of Nazism has long been discredited.  A new attempt to revive the theory fails to convince.