Amr Bargisi

Jan 22, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Itamar Rabinovich |Amos Yadlin |Shlomo Avineri |Amr Bargisi

In addition to checking the news and checking in with friends and family over the last three months, we have found ourselves rethinking many of our convictions and assumptions. So we began asking distinguished friends, contributors, and editorial board members a simple question: What did you believe before October 7 that you no longer believe? Here are some of their responses.

Sep 26, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Shlomo Avineri |Amr Bargisi |Menahem Milson |Itamar Rabinovich

Yale University Press 176 pp., $30 History didn’t end after the fall of the Soviet Union, but liberal democracy did emerge triumphant. Whether borne by Bill Clinton’s “third-way” neoliberalism, George W. Bush’s neoconservative internationalism, or Barack Obama’s hopeful pragmatism, liberalism was the West’s permanent governing philosophy. Or so it seemed. Liberalism is everywhere under siege now.