Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap
The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering.
Michael Walzer
· 10 min read
Politics
A collection of 704 posts
The New Normal?
Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read
The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy
Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much.
Oliver Traldi
· 19 min read
An End to the Mirage
Republicans and Democrats have both learned the wrong lessons from Iraq.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza
The accusation is wrong on the facts and objectively serves to support the intent of Hamas to murder Jews with impunity.
Norman J.W. Goda, Jeffrey Herf
· 11 min read
They Told Me So
How my parents swallowed a frog to save me from antisemitism.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 16 min read
Israel, Gaza, and Proportionality
Simply counting the dead does not produce a moral verdict.
Shlomo Cohen
· 8 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Susie Linfield
· 21 min read
The Return of Terror’s Architect
The restoration of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow illuminates the gulf that now divides Russian society.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
The Radical Humanitarian Doctrine
Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
Borys M. Kowalsky
· 13 min read
Gaza, Islam, and the West
The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have refocussed attention on the place of a consequential voting bloc in Western democracies.
RJ Smith
· 7 min read
The Barbarian Evasions
Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.
David A. Eisenberg
· 4 min read
China’s Female Revolt
How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
A Murder in Namibia
How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus.
Dan Kowalski
· 15 min read