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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
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16 December 2025 A Necessary Voice in an Age of Cowardice There are moments in the life of a society when the moral compass spins so wildly that clarity itself feels like an act of rebellion. The shaking spectacle surrounding the Swedish Koran burnings was precisely such a moment, a
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15 December 2025 The Codification of a New Reality Geopolitics is not concerned with sentiment, but with the immutable realities of geography, power, and interest. We should not consider the 2025 National Security Strategy as a future-oriented political sentiment, but as the formal codification of a global power shift
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11 December 2025 The Palestinian Curriculum: Incubator of Rejectionism It is a peculiar and persistent delusion among the diplomatic salons of Brussels and the editorial boards of the West that the Palestinian Authority represents a secular, moderate bulwark against the theocratic mania of Hamas. This is not merely a misreading
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10 December 2025 Source: Memri Angels Refuse to Disarm A sheer, celestial irony is that on 6 December 2025, the strategic debate surrounding the continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached a surreal crescendo, with the voices of both sides broadcasting simultaneously from irreconcilably different realities—one must truly admire
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9 December 2025 The Finite Trap of Modern Success Our modern world has become dangerously infatuated with a narrow and brittle conception of intelligence. From the classroom to the boardroom, we are conditioned to value a single mode of thought: a logical, procedural, and algorithmic prowess geared towards standardised tests