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A question I get asked all the time is: “How much should I actually invest?”

The short answer is: As much as you can, while still being able to sleep well at night.

On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made three moves that should alarm anyone tracking the rebranding of Antisemitism in American progressive politics. I say this as a mainstream liberal who left the Democratic…

For a long time, the strength of Islamists was measured by how much violence they caused: attacks, land grabs, and the deaths of leaders. That measure doesn’t show the most dangerous things that are happening right now. Islamist groups are…

“Checkpoints are not the cause of terror. Terror is the cause of checkpoints”

Those two sentences in a Facebook post from a man who grew up on a kibbutz next to Gaza exposes the trickery and manipulation used over many decades to turn the…

This week, in synagogues around the world, Jews read the first chapters in the biblical book of Exodus. There we meet Moses and read about his birth to enslaved parents, his adoption into the palace and growth as a prince, his defense of an…

Festival of Progressive Blindness, or How to Fall in Love with Your Executioner

It takes a special kind of genius to turn moral reasoning into an act of ideological self-erasure. The modern Left has mastered this craft, performing…

There is probably no better example in modern history of a failed state than the conditions that prevailed in Somalia on May 26th, 1991, the day Somaliland declared its independence. The utter refusal of the international community to…

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Campus Radicalism, and the Chomskyan Method

Universities are not radicalized by slogans alone. They are radicalized by how students are taught to think about power, evidence, and dissent. To understand the…

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As Armenia seeks pragmatic ties with the West, diaspora activism risks constraining its freedom of maneuver

While the government in Yerevan attempts to navigate an increasingly difficult regional reality, its most…

“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”
(Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, 1922)

There have been no bombings in my town, Palo Negro, in Maracay, which is next to the country’s most important military air base,  though at around…