Tal Fortgang

Only a moral drunkard could twist the Purim story of self-preservation to impugn Israel.

Recognition of what Coates is really up to — in The Message and elsewhere — should chasten those who have treated him as the moral conscience of the West.

The new series by David Simon and Ed Burns is beautifully shot and acted, but its message of looming totalitarianism exposes the showrunners as blinkered ideologues.