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Strongman
“No kings” is the rallying cry at home; yet abroad, the sudden removal of a “king” provokes moral vertigo.
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The Tragedy of Jewish Anti-Zionism
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The Genealogy of the Anti-Zionist Myth
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We live in an age of denial. The denial is simple: ideas don’t matter. People say it all the time. But history keeps contradicting them.
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There are wars that pierce the conscience and those that vanish from it entirely. To understand why, we must understand the ideological fault lines…
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Israel, the Middle East—and the politics, philosophy, and history that still burn beneath them.
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