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Haynes’s 2015 film Carol makes a case for love against all odds – but is that love blind? Movie reviews are as old as cinema itself – for...

Is music our mirror? Sometimes, music is meaning-making – helping us discover what, and whom, we love, and who we are. “Nashe understood...

In a war between the sexes, the main casualty is our humanity. “Cat Person” is a relatable short story, but it risks taking curiosity,...

The triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The...

“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...

Irrational! How else can we explain the conducts of Putin, Netanyahu, Maduro, Jammeh, Kim Jong-un, Tsipras and ISIS? But to understand...

I had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two years...

The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...

When the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were...

On July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed ...

Salma Hayek’s NYT piece, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too, is terrifyingly moving, and inspiring. It also made me wonder about the...