
The Exemplary Pogrom
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
by Steven J. Zipperstein
May 23, 2019 issue
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Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is On Betrayal. (May 2019)
The Exemplary Pogrom
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
by Steven J. Zipperstein
May 23, 2019 issue
Monday Morning Philosophers
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)
by David Papineau
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
by Simon Critchley
March 22, 2018 issue
Betrayal in Jerusalem
Judas
by Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
March 9, 2017 issue
‘A Knack for Handling Power’
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
by Anita Shapira
January 14, 2016 issue
Palestine: How Bad Was British Rule?
Out of Palestine: The Making of Modern Israel
by Hadara Lazar
February 7, 2013 issue
Obama and the Rotten Compromise
In reading the reports on President Obama’s Nobel speech in Oslo, one gets the impression that the President was offering a dose of realism to a gathering of fjord-loving well-meaning village idiots. He reminded them that an imperfect world should be governed not only by a pacifist vision of non-violence, but also by a theory of just war that tells us under what conditions a war is morally justified. This invocation of just wars was praised by both conservatives and liberals, who have applauded what they call Obama’s “Niebuhrian realism” and his drawing on a “venerable moral tradition” to give legitimacy to military engagement with “hostile regimes and networks in the world.” But having a realistic view of what a war can accomplish is part and parcel of just war doctrine, and it is precisely Obama’s realism about the war in Afghanistan that we should question.
December 17, 2009
Israel: The Writers’ Writer
Midnight Convoy and Other Stories
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish and others, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Preliminaries
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, with an introduction by Dan Miron
Khirbet Khizeh
by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck, with an afterword by David Shulman
September 24, 2009 issue
A Moral Witness to the ‘Intricate Machine’
Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
by David Shulman
December 6, 2007 issue
The Lessons of Spinoza
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
by Matthew Stewart
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
by Rebecca Goldstein
April 12, 2007 issue
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