UrielFeb 11, 20187 minA Century of Self-DeterminationFew principles are more powerful, and perilous, than self-determination: It can tear states apart, and erect new ones; it can foster war,...
UrielDec 16, 20179 minHell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the TribeThe triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The...
UrielDec 16, 20175 minThe 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...
UrielDec 16, 20175 minThe 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...
UrielDec 16, 20174 min Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the WestI had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two years...
UrielDec 16, 20173 minSelf-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of LegitimacyThe West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...
UrielDec 16, 20175 min A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab SpringWhen the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were...
UrielDec 16, 20175 min What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab SpringOn July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed ...