For More Than Three Decades, Qatar Has Flourished by Playing All Sides
A strategy of means, not ends
Department
History.
Lessons and narratives from the past.
Lately on the shelf
30 of 137Why Russia had serfs
A story in 7 maps
The Unfinished Drama of Two Histories
On Muslim Migration and the Long Revolt Against Jerusalem, or, Notes Toward a History of Western Dissolution
Yet More Flying Notes From Egypt
The Confessions of a Very Reasonable Man
The US Election in 6 maps
Do the results map onto gas prices, tariffs, and data centres?
Why Italy ruled Europe but couldn’t rule itself
How geography shaped the country we know today (in 7 maps)
The Art of Blaming Israel For Everything
Notes Toward an Autopsy of Anti-Zionism
The future of Britain in 7 maps
How geography could shape the country’s future
Brotherist Without Being a Brother
Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood
The history of Britain in 7 maps
How geography shaped the country we know today
Intifada Everywhere All at Once
On the other October 7th
Ye Have Troubled Me
Why Israel Must Reclaim the Monopoly of Violence from Jewish Extremism in the West Bank
Lost for Words
On the Use and Abuse of Genocide and Other Words
A World of Hurt
The Middle East Three Years After October 7
The Battle of All Poets and Authors
On the story of how Revolution remade Arab letters, antisemitic poetry, and other things
Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I
The story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it
How One Becomes Everything and Nothing
On Third Worldism and Willed Meaning
How October 7 Inherited the Guilt of September 11
The West’s habit of converting mass murder into self-recrimination moved from Ground Zero to Gaza
THE GREAT OUTSOURCING
In the beginning, early Man, still living among the trees, ate only fruit and leaves.
Death and Sex in Palestine, Part II
The Erotics of Sacrifice
The Origin of the Necropolis
Follow up on Death and Sex in Palestine
Signs and Existence
On Signs, Reality, and Language Between Nietzsche and Hamann
Old-New Anti-Semitism
The infinite reproducibility of anti-Semitism
The First
For a brief period in the 6th century there was among the splinter sects of Khivan Nestorians a cult with a peculiar doctrine.
The Power of Ideas Or Ideas of Power
The Idea of Palestine in Democratic Politics
Death and Sex in Palestine
The Visual Culture of Palestinian Martyrdom and the Erotics of Sacrifice
POET OF SMOKE
A leaf bound into a copy of the Chronica Gentis Scotorum relates the following story, attributed to Donnchad mac Gilla Críst, a minor toísech of the Atholl highlands.
There Are No Heroes Here
Arday the Miracle, Arday the Fraud
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought
The Pyramid of Sorrows
The conquistadors wrote that Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica Empire, was the crowning glory of the earth.