Podcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on Israel’s Deep State
September 16, 2020 | By: Haviv Rettig Gur

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Over the past several years, debates about America’s so-called “deep state”—the web of agencies, career civil servants, and unelected bureaucrats responsible for a growing amount of federal policymaking—have increasingly found their way into political […]
Read MorePodcast: Jason Bedrick on School Choice, Religious Liberty, and the Jews
July 1, 2020 | By: Jason Bedrick

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. As the Supreme Court closed out it 2019-2020 term, it handed down its decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. With a 5-4 majority, the Court ruled that states could not use their […]
Read MorePodcast: David Evanier on the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell, and Jewish Communism
July 3, 2019 | By: David Evanier

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is perhaps the most (in)famous espionage trial in all American history. While their conviction and execution remain familiar and controversial episodes in the Cold War, the fate […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonah Goldberg on Marx’s Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory
February 13, 2019 | By: Jonah Goldberg

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist.” So wrote the intellectual father of Communism, Karl Marx, in his “On the Jewish Question.” Though descended from […]
Read MorePodcast: Russ Roberts on Hayek, Knowledge, and Jewish Tradition
March 26, 2018 | By: Russ Roberts

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Hayek and His Work Chapter 2: Law, Legislation, and Seeing the Unseen Chapter 3: “I, Pencil” Chapter 4: The Jewish Theory of Knoweldge Chapter 5: Freedom, Holiness, and the Ends of Society It is common today to […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on the Long Way to Liberty
March 23, 2017 | By: Yuval Levin

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Left and Right on Liberty Chapter 2: Theory and Practice in America Chapter 3: Stations on the Long Road Chapter 4: The Jew in Society Chapter 5: Challenges, Pitfalls, and the Journey to Freedom Lamenting the […]
Read MorePodcast: Matthew Continetti on Irving Kristol’s Theological Politics
March 1, 2017 | By: Matthew Continetti

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Politics Unmasked Chapter 2: Orthodoxy vs. Gnosticism Chapter 3: Two Cheers for Capitalism Chapter 4: What Irving Kristol Means Today Chapter 5: Judaism, Utopianism, and Ideology Irving Kristol was truly one-of-a-kind. He had a capacious mind and […]
Read MoreRav Kook's Economic Thought
October 5, 2016

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook is a founder of religious Zionism and guide for many today. Perhaps less well known are his views on economics. In this lecture, Tikvah alum Rabbi Netanel Elyashiv explains that Rav Kook has a free market teaching about economics, in which he provides spiritual meaning to the workings of the market […]
Read MorePodcast: Jason Bedrick on Jewish Day Schools and School Choice
August 2, 2016 | By: Jason Bedrick

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Evolution of Jewish Education in America Chapter 2: Milton Friedman on“The Role of Government in Education” Chapter 3: State of Jewish Day Schools and the Tuition Crisis Chapter 4: State of School Choice Debate in America Chapter 5: […]
Read MoreThe Moral Costs of Jewish Day School
August 2, 2016 | By: Aryeh Klapper

On top of the rising costs of raising a child in America, Jack Wertheimer estimates that “actively engaged” Jewish families pay a premium of “$50,000 and $110,000 a year just to live a Jewish life.” Behind these financial costs are significant moral ones, Rabbi Aryeh Klapper argues in this 2012 article. High costs of living […]
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