About this episode

The episode discusses the proposal of a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund and its implications for the American Jewish community in an anti-establishment era.

American Jewry has long thrived in a society built on institutions. But today, we live in an anti-establishment age, where subtlety fuels suspicion and open displays of power are seemingly valued for their authenticity. In this environment, should America’s Jews think and act like a state, as Jordan Chandler Hirsch argues in his essay “The Need for a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund”? Or is this proposed cure an abandonment of the features that have long defined American exceptionalism — and the Jewish experience within it, as Roger Zakheim argues in response. On December 8, SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens moderated a conversation on the future of the American Jewish community in an anti-institutional era with Jordan Chandler Hirsch, senior counselor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies, and Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute Roger Zakheim. Read Jordan Chandler Hirsch’s essay: https://sapirjournal.org/money/2025/the-need-for-a-jewish-sovereign-wealth-fund/ Read Roger Zakheim’s rebuttal: https://sapirjournal.org/letters/against-a-jewish-sovereign-wealth-fund-renewing-americas-covenantal-promise/ Watch the virtual discussion…

People in this episode

Host: Bret Stephens

Guests: Jordan Chandler Hirsch, Roger Zakheim

Topics covered

• Jewish community
• sovereign wealth fund
• American exceptionalism
• anti-establishment
• institutional trust

Keywords

• Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund
• American Jewry
• anti-establishment
• Jordan Chandler Hirsch
• Roger Zakheim

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Palantir Technologies, Ronald Reagan Institute

Books & works: The Need for a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund, against a Jewish Sovereign Wealth Fund: renewing America's covenantal promise

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