Sep 15, 2025

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum, or maybe not

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There’s a stubborn little Latin phrase that pops up in moments of awkward reverence: De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. Speak only good of the de...
Aug 31, 2025

Relational Solipsism and the Post-Truth Condition

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Donald Trump did not invent the post-truth world. He merely capitalized on it. Long before Twitter became a political weapon and fact-check...
Aug 6, 2025

Narcissism’s Telltale Glitter

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I spent many years under governments that preferred statues to citizens: first  thirty years in the  Soviet Union, and then three years in P...
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Jul 6, 2025

The Politics of Omission. How Selective Memory Distort the Israeli-Palestinian Debate

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There’s a kind of clarity that comes from telling half the story. It lets you feel morally grounded, righteously indignant, even heroic. And...
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Jun 5, 2025

Drawing the Line Between War Crimes and Genocide

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The words war crime and genocide often appear side by side in news reports, tribunal summaries, and political speeches, as if they were tw...
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Jun 1, 2025

Boycotts, Academia, and the Ethics of Solidarity

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There’s something performatively clean about a boycott. You refuse to show up, you make a statement, you symbolically withdraw your presence...
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Apr 5, 2025

Global Reactions to Trump’s April 2025 Tariff Announcement

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On April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a new 10% “baseline” tariff on all imports from every country, with steep “reciproca...