Monday, March 25, 2013

Obama in Israel: Hope over Experience? By Max Boot.

Obama in Israel: Hope over Experience? By Max Boot. Commentary, March 25, 2013.

Obama to Palestinians: Accept the Jewish State. By Daniel Pipes. Washington Times, March 26, 2013.

Tribalism in the Jerusalem speech. By David Bromwich. Mondoweiss, March 23, 2013.

Why Did President Obama Come to Israel? By Caroline Glick. Real Clear Politics, March 21, 2013. Also find it here.

Marriage, Divorce, and Princely Politics in the Early Middle Ages.

Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II. By Stuart Airlie. Past and Present, No. 161 (November 1998).

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920. By Julia M. H. Smith. Past and Present, No. 146 (February 1995).


Emperor Lothar I (r. 840-855), grandson of Charlemagne. Wikipedia.

Female Martyrdom in Early Christianity: The Passion of Vibia Perpetua.

Mosaic of Saint Perpetua. Archiepiscopal Chapel, Ravenna, Italy. Sixth Century AD.

The Passion of Perpetua. By Brent D. Shaw. Past and Present, No. 139 (May 1993).

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, 203. Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University.

The prison diary of Saint Perpetua. SatelliteSaint, June 29, 2012.

Perpetua and Felicity. Wikipedia.



Statue of St. Perpetua at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church,
Royal Oak, Michigan.

The Rise of Tory America. By Joel Kotkin.

Progressives, preservation, and prosperity. By Joel Kotkin. Orange County Register, March 22, 2013. Also at JoelKotkin.com, and New Geography.

America’s Tory President. By Andrew Sullivan. The Dish, August 24, 2012.

The New Authoritarianism. By Fred Siegel and Joel Kotkin. City Journal, January 6, 2012.

The Liberal Top-Bottom Coalition. By Fred Siegel. City Journal, Winter 2012.

Who Lost the Middle Class? By Fred Siegel. City Journal, August 11, 2011.

Progressives Against Progress. By Fred Siegel. City Journal, Summer 2010.

Obama-as-Tory Revisited. By Jordan Bloom. The American Conservative, March 25, 2013.

A Feast for the Senses . . . and the Soul. By Dorothy D. Resig.

A Feast for the Senses . . . and the Soul. By Dorothy D. Resig. Bible History Daily, March 21, 2013.

Denying Islam’s Role in Terror: Explaining the Denial. By Daniel Pipes.

Denying Islam’s Role in Terror: Explaining the Denial. By Daniel Pipes. Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring 2013). Also find it here. PDF.

The Religious Foundations of Suicide Bombing: Islamist Ideology. By David Bukay. Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Fall 2006).

The President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh Away. By Ira Chernus.

The President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh Away. By Ira Chernus. History News Network, March 22, 2013.

Why Are Right-Wingers So Crazy in Love with Israel? By Ira Chernus. AlterNet, January 14, 2013.