Category: Why do Jews live longer than non-Jews?

THE GREAT AND UNFORTUNATE THINGS We live in peculiar times. That is a trivial thing to say: on the surface, all times are unique. Only now it is actually, finally, beginning to look like this. When people unaffiliated with the University of Cambridge feel a sense of relief at their unaffiliation, while those who are affiliated feel they need to explain themselves—that sounds like the mother of all peculiarities. In a society that treats any piece of news, be it a mass murder or a royal wedding, as entertainment, the explosion of commentary on the downfall of Jason Arday, the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) darling at the University of Cambridge, is only to be expected. The cruelty of it is also highly predictable. I am not sure whether Arday can stay alive after all this. Simon Baron-Cohen said that he should be left alone because he is autistic and, as an autistic individual, would find it hard to cope. Well, Baron-Cohen...

The West is undergoing a spiritual crisis. It lost its religion, Christianity. It is not allowed to be nationalistic, which is a sentiment that replaced Christianity for a while and then got banned. So, it needs a new project-a war with Russia, for the sake of Ukraine, became such a project. Ukraine in incidental here, it is an excuse. A different country could occupy its place. Such is the view of Emmanuel Todd, communicated in the ‘Defeat of the West’. The loss of religion, and the loss of nationalism as a form of civic religion, the spread of nihilism are undoubted. One only needs to look at the figures: in a nutshell, not many attend churches or not many are prepared to defend their own country. There is no God, Devil or indeed an enemy. All that is true. It is also true, a point that Todd does not make but I do, that there is quite a bit of the...

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