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The Torah’s foundational political insight is simple and unsettling: power cannot be allowed to police itself.

That insight emerges most clearly in the Exodus narrative. Pharaoh is not portrayed as chaotic or irrational. He believes he is…

Some years ago, I attended a performance of “King David” by Gesher Theater, with a group of new Russian-speaking Olim.  My initial excitement to see this play turned sour after the first few scenes,  and at intermission I found myself…

“Any stigma… will serve to beat a dogma.”
Masters and Men, Philip Guedella (1923)

A medical student, in my early 20s, in the early 1970s, I crave female companionship. Unfortunately, very shy, very poor, I lack the confidence and cash…

Since October 7, Israel’s war is no longer about Hamas alone. It is about dismantling Gaza’s role as a hub of transnational jihad. For decades, Hamas has been more than a local “resistance” group—it has been a bedrock of global…

In an emotionally charged political essay on his Substack account, rather than honor the memory of Black America’s most outstanding leader, Robert Reich defiles it and uses Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy to legitimize contemporary…

Since 1991, Somaliland has consistently demonstrated that it is a fully sovereign state under international law. Its population, territory, effective government, and capacity for foreign relations fully satisfy the Montevideo criteria, while…

Rule through ambiguity is not a lack of control but one of its most refined forms: responsibility is shifted downward, power concentrated upward. Seen in this light, Netanyahu’s style of governance appears less an anomaly than a…

You know that feeling?

Someone is talking, smiling, saying the right things. They’re even “kind.”
And still… your body leans back.

Not because you caught them lying.

Because they’re not there.

It’s hard to explain this without…

The firstborn. There aren’t many things that can compete with the first. Any first carries the mighty change it caused and has an everlasting effect on the person. Imagine a long and empty hallway. You walk along the beautifully minted…

IRAN: CALM AS A WEAPON

Iran has just replayed the same brutal lesson once again. A society rises, the regime absorbs the shock, and then “calm” returns on the regime’s terms. Streets fall silent not because the conflict has been…