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How Modern Powers Use Theology and Ideology to Create Cohesion and Justify Expansion

Geopolitics is often explained through material variables — military capability, economic leverage, institutional alignment, demographic weight. Yet beneath…

In the world of derivatives, there is a concept known as a “deep out-of-the-money option.” It is a contract that most rational actors never expect to be exercised. The premium is cheap, the payoff improbable, and the whole point of owning…

Imagine the scene of World War II: destruction, death, and suffering everywhere. Thousands were murdered in gas chambers, while others slowly succumbed to hunger and disease. Daily life was steeped in pain, fear, and despair, in a time when…

The defense architecture of North Africa is undergoing a quiet, structural bifurcation. While Washington maintains a robust and uninterrupted pipeline of advanced weaponry to strategic partners on the western edge of the continent, its…

“Genocide” Is Not a Protest Chant — It Is a Legal Accusation. Prove It.

Within days of October 7 — before the bodies were buried, before families finished identifying their dead — a new accusation began circulating with astonishing…

In 1995, I traveled to Bangalore to recruit young Indian engineers for my growing Oracle consulting practice. At the time, India’s technological rise was not yet widely recognized. Bangalore was not the global brand it would later become….

In simpler times, it was easy to experience Parshas Zachor as having little direct relevance to our own modern lives. Despite the Torah’s insistence that it is מדור דור — from generation to generation — seriously claiming Amalek…

In the volatile theater of West Asian geopolitics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jerusalem this February was less of a diplomatic courtesy and more of a strategic manifesto. As the specter of a “massive armada” loomed over the…

As a child growing up in the Galut, I was not truly aware of that truth. I lived in Vienna, surrounded by a warm and embracing family, and that was my entire world.
Was I different from anyone else in my class? Yes, I was.
Did it disturb me?…