Western Conservatism Is Searching for Its Soul — But Is It Listening to the Jews?
The Aleppo Codex of the Hebrew Bible. Photo: Wikipedia. There is no better metaphor of Western civilisation’s struggle to keep up the fight against the destructive forces attacking our existence, than the air conditioning at…
Assessment
The piece uses a mundane infrastructure failure at a London conference as a metaphor for a deeper civilizational crisis, asking whether Western conservatism is willing to absorb Jewish perspectives. The question is whether Jewish thought offers a necessary corrective or is being ignored in the broader struggle over conservative identity. The coming days will show if the conference's substantive debates reflect that same tension.