There’s an old joke about two people in a restaurant. One says, “The food here is terrible.” The other says, “Yeah, and such small portions!” I thought about that when Michigan legalized recreational marijuana last week. The goal, at least partly, was to redirect the...

This weekend, American Jews gathered in synagogues for Sabbath services, more fearful than they’d been the weekend before. They wondered if some murderous madman might now enter their sanctuaries. For them, it was hard to imagine an issue more critical. But elsewhere...