God and Politics in Esther

A treatise on politics and faith, God and Politics in Esther explores the crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all costs. Yoram Hazony ’86 argues that Esther’s story was included in the Bible because it speaks to the current generation, which doesn’t tend to see God in the world and isn’t waiting for miracles.