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Sovereignty and Immortality: Deciphering the Ultimate Promise of World Politics

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Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of...

Geometries of Chaos: America’s Future in World Politics

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“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” –T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (1939) Normally, geometry and chaos are mutually exclusive. Still, when applied to complex considerations...
A sign congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on his victory in the election, in central Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Trust Trump on Israel? Hypocritical Biden-Harris supporters say ‘no’

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Kingsley Wilson should never have gotten a job in the Trump administration. The heretofore obscure conservative activist provided plenty of fodder for President Donald Trump’s critics this week when it was discovered that she has a...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog comforts Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, who was captured on Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists and murdered by them in the Gaza Strip in August 2024, at Hersh's funeral on Sept. 2, 2024. Credit: Maayan Toaf/Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel via Wikimedia Commons.

A living example of extraordinary, ordinary faith

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As Jews, we read about faith all the time. We study Torah and learn the stories of our forebears—men and women of deep conviction who faced epic tests and challenges, yet maintained their belief,...
Israeli military personnel are seen near the entrance to Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

The Oct. 7 catastrophe of the Israeli army

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Eyal Zamir, the new chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, embodies the composed strength of the tank corps—resolute, methodical and enduring. Unlike the aerial acrobatics of fighter pilots or the tactical ingenuity...
Glass window with a Jewish star. Credit: Nadine Doerle/Pixabay.

The fault line that runs through American Jewry

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Much has been made of the perceived disappearing act of the American Jewish community. Surveys indicate plummeting marriage and birth rates, rampant intermarriage and a lessening affinity with Israel. These indicia have set off alarm...

Israel’s wars against jihadi terrorists concern intersections between death and time.

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In the final analysis, Israel’s wars against jihadi terrorists concern intersections between death and time. While these wars highlight sub-state adversaries, they also point toward existential conflicts with Iran. All such wars, whatever their...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were also in attendance, Feb. 28, 2025. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

The Trump-Zelenskyy spat isn’t a warning to Israel

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It was, as President Donald Trump said, “good television.” But the dustup at the White House last week between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a disaster for Ukraine....
Maughan Library at King's College London. Credit: KiloCharlieLima via Wikimedia Commons.

Academic apologism: How universities are rationalizing terror

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Institutions of higher education have long been perceived as bastions of critical thinking and rigorous debate. Yet recent incidents throughout the United Kingdom suggest that some educators may be exploiting their platforms to rationalize...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 28, 2025. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

The US, Ukraine and Israel

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The collective gasp that erupted on Friday across European capitals—and echoed in certain circles in Jerusalem—was warranted. Never before had a confrontation like the one between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in...