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Disarming Disarmament: Withdrawals From the Mine Ban Treaty are a Negative Precedent
Vietnamese child shows injuries caused by a land mine explosion. Photo: James Hathaway – Flickr CC BY 2.0 Treaties are voluntary agreements in which states consent to follow a given set of rules. Once signed and ratified, treaties commit states to specific...
Better to Reign in Art Than Serve the Algorithm: Ozzy Osbourne as One of the Last Rebels
Ozzy Osbourne performing in Birmingham, England with Black Sabbath, February 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 My wife recently told our 23-year-old nephew about how Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a live bat. It was in 1982 on the appropriately named,...
The Afghan Kill List
Afghan evacuees boarding American aircraft during Operation Allies Refuge in 2021. In February 2022, a British Royal Marine officer—often among the brightest—made a mistake while seconded to a UK Special Forces base at Regent’s Park barracks in London. He was trying...
“Everything Beautiful in Their Lives is Gone:” US Physicians Read Aloud the Searing Testimony of Desperate Doctors and Patients in Gaza
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 “I have a cold. And in one hour, I’ll have finished a twenty-four-hour shift, heartbroken again. I lost a cardiac patient because we had no medication. Another patient shot in the head, was left to die slowly because we...
What is a Palestinian-American’s Life Worth?
Shireen Abu-Akleh, Amer Rabee, Saif Musallet. Image: Jeffrey St. Clair. His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the family’s ice cream parlor in Tampa. He liked cars,...
The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 The bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the...
The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier
Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...
The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 The bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the...
The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier
Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...
Was Emerson Pointing to Indigenousness?
[Achille] Mbembe said that his project was ‘to look into ways in which we can render politically fruitful the critique of religion while taking very seriously religion itself as critique – especially a critique of ‘the political’. –Kevin Okoth, reviewing Brutalism by...
The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier
Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...