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When Sacred Certainty Borrows the Mask of Science
On Stefano Bigliardi’s Islam and Pseudoscience
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The Nobel Peace Prize Has No Backspace Key
Arafat, Obama, Abiy, Pillay - and the Problem of Irreversible Moral Authority
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Britain Bombed Kurdistan. A Century Later, It Still Wants to Decide Its Future.
From the Royal Air Force to the Home Office: a century of British double standards toward Kurdish political agency
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The Civilization That Discovered It Did Not Know
8 October 2026 Note I rarely find a political speech that makes me want to return to first principles. Marco Rubio’s recent speech beneath the Acropolis did. Then I listened to Susan Kokinda discussing it on Promethean Updates. She challenged her viewers with a deceptively simple question: “Do you
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Where Can the Future Come From?
After October 7, anfāl, the Holocaust, Gaza - and the Limits of Backspace
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Mina ord räcker inte till
Jag vill inte låta den 7 oktober förvandla varje palestinier till Hamas. Jag vill inte låta Gazas lidande göra antisemitismen osynlig.
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The Palestinian Who Says October 7 Was a Catastrophic Error
The Third Essay in an October 7 Trilogy: Agency, Political Inaudibility, and Palestine’s Backspace Key
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When Was Iraq Certain?
The American Departure and the Wrong Question About Iraq’s Future
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October 7: Where Did the Error Go?
Three Years After the Pogrom, a Personal Conjecture About Error, Agency, Memory—and the People Who Pay
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The Axe Was Visible. The Explanation Was Not.
Flight FZ1073, Invisible Explanations, and the Architecture of an Open Future
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THREE ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND OCTOBER 7
Explanation, Error, and the Possibility of an Open Future
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Who Fills the Vacuum? Perhaps That Is Already the Wrong Question
A First Conjecture on Kurdistan After the American Withdrawal