Biden’s ‘build back better’ message to Iran, Israel and the Arabs
Critics of The New York Times sometimes claim that the newspaper’s biases render it unreadable. But those who avoid it are missing out on one of its key features: the way it serves as a sounding...
Kyle Rittenhouse and the ticking racial clock
Tick Tock. Tick Tock.
Not that Tik Tok! Do I look like I lip-sync and choreograph dance moves?
I mean the ticking clock—the racial time bomb we live with each day. Many anticipated an explosion following...
Reason Versus Anti-Reason: America’s Primal Struggle
“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952)
After the Second World War, Karl Jaspers identified a crucial but neglected bifurcation,...
Shutting down pro-Israel speech at Duke
The recent action by the Duke Student Government (DSG) to withhold recognition to a new pro-Israel student group seems to confirm that academic free speech is not always free depending on who is speaking....
The Disequilibrating Problem Of Inflation
Recently, there has been one piece of economic news in the United States that has been particularly disturbing. And that is the growing rate of inflation in the economy after years of fairly steady...
The Discreet Charm of Grey
Often underrated, grey is a great colour.
For some, it evokes mediocrity and sadness.
For me, it is not only discreetly elegant, but it also conveys maturity.
Not for nothing is it the colour that hair takes...
Gosar Is Censured But Why Not Omar and Tlaib?
We cannot argue with Nancy Pelosi: “When a member uses his or her national platform to encourage violence, tragically, people listen.”
Whenever her Democratic colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives bash Israel and by...
Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city
In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s...
Counter-Terrorism, Martyrdom and the ‘Hunger of Immortality’
“Nothing is real that is not eternal.”
Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1921)
Though inconspicuous and easily misunderstood, there is no conceivably greater power in world politics than power over death. On its face, this preeminent form of...
The Iliad is an army of warlike miracles disguised as men who sing...
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is useful to knit literary readings. With some Kantian principles and without ancient erudition we have attained hermeneutic conclusions on Homer, conclusions which coincide with the Homeric opinions of...