Robert Nicholson in Providence recounts his time spent with friends in Israel near the Lebanese border and the country’s long and fruitless efforts at making peace with neighbouring terrorist organizations. As missiles fly over head, Nicholson queries his female host about the long game. “‘How will this end?’ I asked her. ‘We destroy Hezbollah—it’s the only way. These people only understand power’,” is her pragmatic response.

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.


