2021 has turned out to be another unpredictable year. As wave after wave of news stories reporting death and mayhem rolled over us, I found myself thinking about the Enlightenment.
Believe it or not, I grew up in a Jewish family that didn’t tell jokes.
I slumbered eyes-open through childhood seders, bored out of my mind, wondering if that meant I was the Wicked Son, or in my case, the Wicked Daughter, who counted even less.
My father died peacefully on a wintry morning this February. The day before, there was a snowstorm, and he spent hours watching the flakes fall outside his kitchen window.
Every four or eight years, the United States has the opportunity for a political reset.
On Sunday, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC, celebrated its Red Mass, an annual event held on the Sunday before the first Monday in October when the Supreme Court term begins
“She was a role model to the Jewish nation, to the American nation—and to our world. To older people. To middle-aged people. To young people.”
Can we confront the future without reckoning with the past?
Aaron David Miller is a veteran Middle East peace negotiator, analyst and author, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Miller spoke with Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein about the recent Israel-UAE peace deal.
I have always been exhilarated by anything that gives me a chance to touch another time, past or future, even for an instant.
With so many people up in arms about The New York Times’s handling of Senator Tom Cotton’s opinion piece on its op-ed page, it’s time for all of us to be thinking about the mission of opinion sections.
