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Ed Miliband Challenges Britain’s Chief Rabbi

It is hard not to miss a running theme with the chief rabbi’s pronouncements. Anything that threatens to limit Israel’s room for manoeuvre in...

Re-Opened Veins of Latin America: This Time the Algorithm

Latin America is simultaneously a consumer market, data source, zone of expansion for digital infrastructure, and a geopolitical battleground in US rivalry with China because these two countries dominate creation and capture of value in the digital economy in an arena where the position of Latin America is tremendously vulnerable....
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US-China race for orbital supremacy could decide a Taiwan war

Dogfighting satellites, secret spaceplanes and orbital interceptors: inside the US-China buildup for war in space. US defense chiefs, including outgoing US Space Force Chief General Chance Saltzman and US Space Command head General Stephen Whiting, warn that China is developing advanced ground- and space-based counterspace systems — including jamming, lasers...
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Justice: Islam’s Shield For Survival

Justice is therefore not merely one virtue among many. It is the civilizational capital upon which trust, solidarity, stability and sustainable prosperity depend. Ibn Khaldun’s analysis shows how oppression destroys the social cohesion that enables civilizations to rise. Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi’s emphasis on faith, knowledge, fraternity, justice and...
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Le Pen-proofing the EU won’t stop the populist wave

Faced with voters they no longer understand, establishment parties console themselves that it is in fact the electorate that has lost touch with reality, that the warping of the democratic process in the digital space makes elections themselves a threat to democracy. French attempts to expedite EU legislation are motivated...
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Does the Global Firepower Index (GFP) Reflect Countries’ Actual Warfighting Capabilities? The Case of Israel

The GFP data, which disregard the dynamics of modern warfare, do not take nuclear weapons stockpiles into account, fail to address asymmetric and hybrid warfare that can alter the balance of power, overlook the force-multiplier effect of alliances and geopolitics, exclude human and psychological factors, and do not consider the...
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The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System

It does not demand worship through rituals or temples. It demands our attention—through organization, accumulation, and ceaseless activity. It keeps us busy, distracted, and fragmented, making it harder to see the whole. Mammon is not merely the god of debt—it is also the god of war. The same system that...
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The Beginning of the End of History

Support for liberalism, as opposed to democracy, has always been more fragmented and episodic. The reason for this, as I explained in Liberalism and Its Discontents, is that one of its important justifications is a pragmatic one concerning the management of political diversity, rather than any deep commitment to the...
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American History and American Amnesia

Americans generally assume that there is a purity of purpose to U.S. use of force, but the picture is far more complicated than that. Criticism of the use of force should not be considered marginal or inconvenient. Until we understand the nature and risks of our military actions, there will...
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Israel and the Far Right Want You to Believe There Is an Islamic Invasion of the West

There is no ‘Islamic invasion’ and there is no ‘Islamization’ of the West. There is, without a doubt, a looming crisis weighing down Western countries and a change in the cultural landscape in which Muslims remain a minority. It is therefore questionable whether nationalist parties in Europe are acting in...
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25 Years After September 11: The Crisis of the American Order

The twenty-five-year balance sheet of September 11 is less a story of the collapse of the United States than a story of the transformation in the nature of American power. Washington has lost its capacity to transform its power into an order that is legitimate, predictable, and sustainable for others...
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Houthi attacks expose Iran’s desperation — here’s how Trump must respond
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War, What Is It Good For?
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The Revolution Will Be Computational
The real revolution therefore may not be artificial intelligence itself. It may be the political decision to treat intelligence as
How to fix NATO’s fatal flaw
What then should NATO do to protect and defend against Russian and possibly Chinese active measures and hybrid war? This
AI; We Must Pace the Frontier
I continue to believe that AI can enormously improve the quality of human life. My desire to achieve these benefits
Iran and the Emerging Security Order in the Middle East
A new order will have to take account of the fact that Turkey will be more concerned with Israel, the
Le Pen-proofing the EU won’t stop the populist wave
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Asia’s lonely economy of one
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The Transgender Mirage Is Cracking
The transgender mirage is cracking — not because critics were loud, but because reality is louder. Reality, unlike ideology, does

Life Under Blockade: an Interview with Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez

In Havana in August 2026, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau interviewed Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, for Cuba Analysis Podcast. Produced in collaboration...

Ex Oriente Odysseus: the Babylonian Connection of a Greek Hero

The transfer of Mesopotamian culture to Greece was multidimensional, and it also featured a very important linguistic component. Akkadian, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic...

Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism

Rey’s analysis of Jünger’s train of thought is both illuminating and by the same token unsatisfying. Ultimately, Auf den Marmorklippen, beautiful though it may be...

9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

Today anyone who believes the official story of 9/11 is...

The “Türkiye Model” in Conflict Resolution

Regardless of the eventual outcome, Türkiye’s claim to resolve a...

Life Under Blockade: an Interview with Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez

In Havana in August 2026, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau...

The heirs of Esau: Rome, Christianity, and the making of the West

The modern West may no longer speak openly in the...

How Trump’s Blockade Could Break the Iranian Regime

The military campaign is part of the same strategy. U.S....

The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites

The real elites have always been those who receive the...

The Israel Lobby Is Out of Control

Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman spoke with investigative journalist Eli Clifton and...

The Shrinking Middle: How the Erosion of the Middle Class Will Reshape Global Politics?

If the middle class stops being the stable middle of...

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