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Uriel
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Putin, Stalin redux
Putin resumes Stalin’s war against Lenin’s self-determination
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Uriel
- Jul 11, 2021
- 4 min
Homesick in Israel: When Bibi Left Balfour
Were we, Israeli Jews, partly drawn to Bibi because we too are still homesick, longing for home that we never quite managed to build?
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Uriel
- Jul 4, 2021
- 6 min
"The People": Democracy vs. Liberalism?
On fascio and the double-edged ideal of "the people"
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Uriel
- Aug 17, 2020
- 8 min
What’s in an Un-Naming?
Should we remove names of controversial figures from public sites? Is un-naming a chosen, collective amnesia or a teaching moment?
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Uriel
- May 18, 2020
- 3 min
If Covid were a person, what would you ask him?
Covid invites us to project upon it our own experiences and expectations, our fears and hopes, providing the perfect template to experiment
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Amaury Hoymans
- Apr 10, 2020
- 6 min
Pangolin is the new Lenin
A random pangolin might have been more successful at triggering the questioning of capitalistic ideas than Lenin
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Amaury Hoymans
- Mar 20, 2020
- 4 min
How much is the human life worth to a government?
I have the impression of living in Albert Camus’ landmark 1947 novel La Peste. More than 70 years later, it appears that the situation we ar
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Uriel
- Mar 13, 2020
- 4 min
God is Dead, Long Live Golem?
Once God guided us, but now, after its death, we turn to the Golem – rising against its own creator… Comparing The Golem & Metropolis
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Uriel
- Mar 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Shape of Hope
A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election
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Uriel
- Dec 17, 2019
- 6 min
Have you Heart?
Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.
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Uriel
- Nov 23, 2019
- 8 min
The Rise and Hopeful Fall of BBism
Israel undergoes an unprecedented crisis… How has it come to this, and what does it say about Israel, politics, and the human condition?
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Shirley Le Penne
- Dec 31, 2018
- 10 min
Love Life&Death: Klimt and Schiele
Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...
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Uriel
- Dec 15, 2018
- 4 min
Do we need God to become Human?
We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...
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Uriel
- Feb 11, 2018
- 7 min
A Century of Self-Determination
Few principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...
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Uriel
- Dec 16, 2017
- 9 min
Hell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the Tribe
The triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The...
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Uriel
- Dec 16, 2017
- 5 min
The Liberal Uncanny: Fascism and Freedom at the Heart of Democracy
“I know not what course others may take,” Patrick Henry concluded his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, “but as for me, give me...
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Uriel
- Dec 16, 2017
- 5 min
The Meaning of Life and Death (in Politics)
Irrational! How else can we explain the conducts of Putin, Netanyahu, Maduro, Jammeh, Kim Jong-un, Tsipras and ISIS? But to understand...
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Uriel
- Dec 16, 2017
- 4 min
Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the West
I had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two years...
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Uriel
- Dec 16, 2017
- 3 min
Self-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy
The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...
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