Amid the tumult over tariffs, let's not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn't forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon contributor Meir Y. Soloveichik has a review. But back to those tariffs, largely put on pause, perhaps someone can figure out why the United Kingdom was included in the first place. After all, we have a nearly $12 billion trade surplus with the U.K. It turns out we don't really like Marmite. Of course trade disputes between our two countries are nothing new. A century ago the United States and Britain were haggling over debt forgiveness following World War I, the subject of Jill Eicher's Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War. Economist extraordinaire Samuel Gregg gives us this rather timely review. How fitting this latest edition of the Weekend Beacon is bookended by rabbis.