In Tablet Mag, Edward Rothstein explores the moral ground that has been awarded to terrorists, first in reaction to 9/11 and now to “10/7”. Relativism and symmetry are being manipulated to rationalize Hamas’ actions, shattering Rothstein’s initial hopes that extremism and atrocity would spark a general rethinking.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


