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How Three Hours at Ben Gurion Airport Changed the Middle East

Episode 1: The Airport Mission

February 18, 2026. Ben Gurion Airport. A man steps off a private plane and promptly refuses to explore the country he supposedly “hates.” To the…

Élise Marrou, a former student of the École normale supérieure (Ulm), agrégée in philosophy, author of a doctoral thesis on the persistence of the problem of solipsism in Wittgenstein’s thought, and assistant professor (maître de…

Spoiler alert.  I’m telling you the answer in the next paragraph.  You have experienced quite enough anxiety, what with the war and everything.  You don’t need the stress of wondering when the answer will come and whether it will be…

One can admire Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his stand on principle, to the point that he may be risking his company’s future. Hours before the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion on February 28, 2026, at 1:15 AM EST…

Hormuz was not shut by a naval blockade. It was shut by an insurance withdrawal.

For decades, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sat in the annals of geopolitical risk analysis as a theoretical tail event—something analysts modelled,…

Few numbers in Holocaust discourse have been repeated as confidently – and questioned as rarely – as the claim that 200,000 Jews were killed by Poles during the German occupation of Poland. Frequently presented as an established…

Culture Builds What Politics Cannot: How Art, Language, and Narrative Reopen the Future

This essay is part of the series “Before Reconstruction: The Moral Architecture of Peace,” which examines the psychological, cultural, and moral…

Discourse over military strikes against Iran often blurs a crucial political distinction. When the United States threatens and carries out attacks on…

From Northern Folklore to the Mediterranean

In my earlier article Mediterranean Chud — From Russians to Arabs, From Chud to “Palestinians”, I used the old word Chud as a metaphor. The term has long appeared in Russian and Scandinavian…

The dialogue between Hashem and Moshe Rabbeinu after the sin of the Golden Calf, was very revealing.

It was described as an עת רצון, or an auspicious time. It was as if Moshe was allowed to ask Hashem any question, and he would receive…