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7 January 2026 The Treason of the Clerks We are gathered here to witness a coroner’s inquest into a suspicious death—not of a person, but of the very concept of objective truth within the Swedish academy. The text upon the slab is a Master’s thesis by one
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4 January 2026 Caracas, and the End of Diplomatic Theatre There are moments in international politics when the mask does not merely slip—it is ripped off with a theatrical flourish and held aloft like a trophy. We are told, endlessly, that strategy documents are abstractions: cautious, bureaucratic exercises in
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1 January 2026 “Our Word or No Word” The attempted murder of Salman Rushdie was not an aberration, nor was it an impulsive excess committed by a lone fanatic who briefly lost his way. It was the predictable, long-delayed execution of an idea—a directive that had been issued,
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29 December 2025 A Wish and a Prophecy “A total war has become inevitable. We all consider it necessary. We want it. At the resistance axis, the Palestinian people, and our nation, we want this total war. … We will certainly defeat them. … [W]e are convinced that if a total
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28 December 2025 Salman Rushdie, 2024, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. New York, NY: Random House. Witness to the Blade This is the first analysis—first take, first pass—on Salman Rushdie’s Knife: not a verdict, not a monument, not the last word, but the opening move in
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25 December 2025 Kaziwa Salih, (ed.), 2025, The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Archive Against Erasure In the study of systematic atrocity, silence is not merely an absence of data; it is an active component of the crime itself. The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocide is, therefore,
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22 December 2025 Experience Moral Ecstasy Every age flatters itself that its hatreds are rational, its jihads humane, and its slogans merely “critical.” Ours is no exception. Yet if modern anti-Zionism were merely a disagreement over borders, policies, or historical grievances, it would not possess the hypnotic power it
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22 December 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press From Strategic Text to Action This essay picks up the thread where my recent analysis of the 2025 National Security Strategy left off. There, I argued that the NSS did not conjure a new world into being, but
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21 December 2025 This text is the second of two essays comprising a unified project on the architecture of ideas. While the first essay, A Memorandum on the Solvability of Human Problems, established the strategic imperative to combat anti-rational stagnation, this essay, The Two Worlds: A Unified Framework for
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19 December 2025 This text is the first of two deeply connected essays born from an inquiry into the “architecture of ideas” and the cognitive machinery shaping our public discourse. Titled A Memorandum on the Solvability of Human Problems, it serves as the strategic “first pillar,” identifying the rise of
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17 December 2025 A Prologue to the Work Over the past six months, I have been engaged in a deep analysis of the architecture of ideas, an inquiry driven by an observable decay in the quality of our public and institutional reasoning. Examining the foundational structures of books, projects, and