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As the twentieth century drew to a close, pundits glowed over the end of totalitarianism and the inevitable march of democracy. The collapse of the Soviet...
Is self-hatred a psychologically tenable concept? Isn’t self-hatred inconsistent with self-love, surely a most fundamental human instinct? Stated in Freudian terms, self-hatred contradicts the id and...
Yehoshaphat Harkabi literally wrote the book on Arab attitudes toward Israel and the Jews. But he utterly failed to understand his own observations. Benjamin Netanyahu seems...
Mural art can build up the viewer or the subject, or tear both down. A once admirable university shows what happens when mural art tells a...
To begin to understand why Muslims are backward, consider this passage from G. E. Von Grunebaum’s Modern Islam (1962):
“Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate...
Precarity is a neoliberal term that was unfamiliar until I researched the theme of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference. It means precarious, hazardous, risky,...
War is the business of warriors, not of Prime Ministers preoccupied with PR ratings. Sun Tzu would have had such PMs castrated. A lesson in military...
Israel was accused of using disproportional force in response to Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in the Second Lebanese War. It may therefore be of interest to consider...
We have yet to identify the enemy. The enemy is not ISIS (or ISIL, as Barack Obama pleases himself to call it). The enemy is not “radical” Islam. The...
