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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...

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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9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

Today anyone who believes the official story of 9/11 is brainwashed. The stupidity of a large percentage of the American population serves to suppress truth. Washington has learned that a story that implants fear in the feeble-minded American population is a success. We can expect more such instances....
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The “Türkiye Model” in Conflict Resolution

Regardless of the eventual outcome, Türkiye’s claim to resolve a forty-year conflict without an external mediator or guarantor constitutes an experience worthy of examination from the perspective of the conflict-resolution literature. The originality of this initiative lies in its claim to address an issue with dynamics of its own by...
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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 with Belly of the Beast Cuba, the full episode is available via their channels and website. Below we publish a transcript of the interview....
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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
Faced with voters they no longer understand, establishment parties console themselves that it is in fact the electorate that has
Asia’s lonely economy of one
Ellen Xie, a comedy producer in Shanghai, has said that she and her single friends imagine forming “temporary families” as
The Transgender Mirage Is Cracking
The transgender mirage is cracking — not because critics were loud, but because reality is louder. Reality, unlike ideology, does
Normalizing Constant Surveillance
We should not accept a surveillance state as an inevitable fact of modern life. We should not accept that everything
Iran Faces a Growing Internal Crisis
More than six months after the start of the war, it has become abundantly clear that the situation inside Iran
Apollo Footage: Lunar Gravity — or Slow Motion?
If NASA really put men on the Moon, then the physical evidence should be there. If the Moon’s gravity exists
We Can’t Automate Learning, We Can Only Automate Dependence on AI
AI can’t do our learning or thinking for us, but it excels at making us dependent on its substitution of
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

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...

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...

The Genealogy of Morality and Immorality; Hatred of Humanity & Criticism of Humanity

There is a fine line between criticizing the human and...

Ex Oriente Odysseus: the Babylonian Connection of a Greek Hero

The transfer of Mesopotamian culture to Greece was multidimensional, and...

Mecca Joint Defence Agreement: From an Idea to a Concept, from a Concept to an Agreement

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