From on High

IN a famous scene in Mel Brooks’s History of the World: Part I, Brooks plays Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. He declares, “I bring you these 15”-and then, mid-sentence, he drops one tablet, breaking it-“Ten! I bring you these Ten Commandments.”

Perhaps there is wisdom here.

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Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor.

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IN a famous scene in Mel Brooks’s History of the World: Part I, Brooks plays Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. He declares, “I bring you these 15”-and then, mid-sentence, he drops one tablet, breaking it-“Ten! I bring you these Ten Commandments.”

Perhaps there is wisdom here.