Essays
Shakespeare’s contemporary John Webster wrote that death hath ten thousand several ways for men to make their exits. But he was silent about the number of ways they re-enter. John Rodden has filled the gap with Scenes from an Afterlife, his account of the near ten thousand several ways that Orwell has been revived to…
Read Full Article...The Messenger and His Message Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is an insider memoir with a political purpose. It tells the story of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from 1973 to the present intertwined with Carter’s own experiences and reminiscences as the president who convened Camp David I, brought about the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty,…
Read Full Article...The advent of Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996 – RIP in 2003 – left many an onlooker feeling both celebrative and uneasy.1 With irrepressibly manic ingenuity the biological sciences are dissolving our supposedly fuddy-duddy moral boundaries so that many scientists find themselves in debates they really would rather avoid as to the wisdom of playing cavalierly…
Read Full Article...A year ago, French President Macron surprised everyone by triggering a snap parliamentary election on the evening on the European Parliamentary elections, which that saw far-right party the National Rally (Rassemblement National, abbreviated RN in French) come first. Macron’s own centrist coalition Together (Ensemble) came second, far behind the RN list led by then 28-year-old…
Read Full Article...Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. —- Theodor W. Adorno The political cartoon has a long history. Some of it is bright and noble: Goya satirized the Catholic Inquisition with his wonderful cappricios; Daumier held up the mirror by which French…
Read Full Article...The theme of identity is a fateful and powerful motive force pervading the history of Zionism and of the State of Israel. Its stamp can be felt in the pictures we view viewed today of mass demonstrations, of streets slicked with oil and strewn with nails, of dummy bombs placed by “religious” soldiers in the Jerusalem…
Read Full Article...The recent outspokenness of conservative students has led to much speculation coming from the right, left, and center about the changing face of American youth. Are organizations like Students for Academic Freedom giving voice to a silenced group on campuses?[i] Is conservatism spreading as the new youth counter-culture movement in contrast to the progressive movements…
Read Full Article...Photos of Donald Trump’s second inauguration showed him surrounded by at least five tech billionaires: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Tim Cook. This image is stark evidence that we now live under oligarchic rule. Donald Trump and his fellow oligarchs are fixated on becoming even richer and that requires a further…
Read Full Article...Donald Trump won the election, and at the time I’m writing this, he’s been president for nearly six months. The Democratic Party has failed in taking this opportunity to incorporate an authentic, sustainable, and grassroots political opposition to MAGA and Trump. The party is still licking its wounds from November. It’s reeling from abysmally low…
Read Full Article...Introduction: Israel’s Security Foundations Israel’s security doctrine rests on three conceptual foundations. The first is a defensive military strategy designed to deliver a decisive victory upon the presumed failure of deterrence. Prior to the 1967 war, this was the sole foundation of Israel’s security approach. The concept still exists, but it has been complicated by…
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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