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by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction, and once again it asks questions. The horrific assaults by Hamas on October 7 last
Continue readingIsrael, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace
Judson Vereen at Poetic Outlaws: My encounters with critics are minimal, yet explosive. They will rip everything apart if they can. Right off the bat, they want what they want,
Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook: Our guest this week is someone I admire greatly, Tel Aviv University History Professor Yael Sternhell. We’ll talk about repression in Israeli academia following
Continue readingIsrael Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning
by Umair Javed at Dawn: The Chinese state is remarkable in that it has struck a balance in using selective discretion to generate high rates of economic growth, though with
Continue reading‘The Use of Political Power to Achieve Economic Gains’
Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of time. A sense of doom is shared on all sides of the political spectrum. Democratic
Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay in Phenomenal World: We live in a dysfunctional system in which money flows out of the countries that need it most and into the coffers
“We can clearly recognize elite institutions’ deep commitment to sterile forms of activism.” Musa al-Gharbi in Compact Magazine: To understand broad trends, it can often be helpful to dig into
Francesco Pacifico in Paris Review: My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this past July, in her apartment near the Janiculum, above Trastevere. It was an extremely hot
Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the
Continue readingFuture Pandemics Will Have the Same Human Causes as Ancient Outbreaks
Today, when only 28 pct of Americans are satisfied with democracy, why would anyone look to the U.S. as a model? Stefan Katz at the Bulwark: IT IS NO SECRET
Continue readingPolitical Dysfunction Is Harming National Security
Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, Fareed Zakaria proffers his own 21st-century spin on storied historian Eric Hobsbawm’s
Is spiritualism and materialism paradoxical? Can they coexist? Is the inference that occult is akin to or similar to spiritualism a valid argument? The groupthink that “all-round and harmoniously developed
Continue readingDid the Occult Influence Karl Marx and Early Communism?