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Kurdistan Was Never the Problem
Bad Kurdish politicians are not an argument against Kurdistan. They are an argument for institutions capable of correcting bad Kurdish politicians.
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When a Question Becomes a Test of the Open Society
A Reflection on the Controversy Surrounding Mohamed El Fayed in Morocco
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The Kurds Have Been Asked to Surrender Power Before the State Has Learned to Correct It
28 August 2026 For a longer discussion see: Kurdistanî Azad. The Long Dream of Kurdish Self-Rule. Note: The Kurds in Syria are surrendering something tangible: military command, territorial control, resources, institutions and bargaining power. In return, they are receiving something potentially historic: recognition, citizenship, language rights and inclusion in
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From True History to Better Problems
How to reconstruct Middle Eastern history as competing conjectures—and transmit the correction without turning it into another doctrine
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Where Does the Error Go?
How organizations become peoples, guardians become problems, states become natural, and Kurdistan disappears from the verb.
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The Winners Became Countries. The Losers Became Footnotes.
Three Essays on Simon Sebag Montefiore, Kurdistan, and the Political Architecture of History
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Tom Barracks’ Bad Philosophy and Good Concern
Tom Barrack, Mario Nawfal, Syria—and the political question their interview never quite reaches
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Kurdistan Has Once Again Been Caught Existing
15 August 2026 A troubling encounter in New York, and the peculiar political theory according to which a place may contain people, cities, governments, borders, memories—and still not exist On a street in New York, amid the flags and loyalties of world football, a young American called Sûre (pronounced
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The BBC Weaponizing Its Institutional Power
How a bad headline turns a bad philosophy into a bad explanation
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Part V of Kurdistanî Azad: The Long Dream of Kurdish Self-Rule
Note: Today, we are publishing Part V of Kurdistanî Azad: The Long Dream of Kurdish Self-Rule. As the narrative approaches the present, the Kurdish story becomes one of extraordinary resilience, painful setbacks, and moments that transformed both Kurdistan and the wider Middle East. These chapters examine not only the
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When Bad Philosophy Arms Itself
Pakistan, Israel, and the Epistemology of the Closed Camp
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Beginning the Tradition: The First Book Returns to the Table
From Rational Criticism as an Idea to Rational Criticism as a Practice