John Foster / 24 Nov 2023
Condemned to Barbarism
The Populist Doomloop
It’s not that there’s a spectre haunting Europe. It’s that there are too many.(...)
Europe
Basilio Korman / 21 Nov 2023
Losing Our Illusions
Italy After Gaza
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a middle-class, northern Italian household.(...)
John Foster / 17 Nov 2023
Between Two Nationalisms
The Spanish Challenge
Breathe easy. Spain’s Socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, has won a second term in office. This is the best possible outcome of the July election. Not just for Spain but also for Europe.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 07 Nov 2023
Wrong Man for the Job
Biden and the Sukkot War, Part I
As Israel finished a whole month of continuously shelling Gaza, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken returned to the region.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 01 Nov 2023
Inglourious Basterds in Gaza
The Problem With Revenge Fantasies
Quentin Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds is more compelling now than when it was first released in 2009.(...)
Joel Schalit / 20 Oct 2023
A Story of Exile
The Sukkot War in Torino
"Palestinian?" he asked. "Yes," the man replied. "Do you live in Torino?" "No," he said. "In Ivrea."(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 19 Oct 2023
Everything’s Exploding
Hiroshima mon amour After Oppenheimer
Hiroshima, mon amour, the 1959 collaboration between director Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras, explores the limits of feeling with profoundly disturbing results.(...)
Joel Schalit / 13 Oct 2023
The Sukkot War
Required Media
There's nothing like news from home. Particularly when you come from a country where it's always heartbreaking to read.(...)
Udi Raz / 11 Oct 2023
Jews But Foreigners
The German Contradiction
Over the last four years, I have collected countless pieces of evidence of how the idea of Germany - whatever Germans tell themselves about what Germany was, what it is, and what it should become - is interwoven with narratives claiming 'Jews' and 'Arabs' are different from each other, and deeply rooted in a state of enmity.(...)
