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Intelligence Is Not Rationality
Why brilliant people can become exceptionally good at defending conclusions they should abandon
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Iran Is Indivisible—Until Someone Asks Why
Territorial Absolutism, Kurdish Political Agency, and the Freedom to Question the Map
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Winning the Debate Is Not Solving the Problem
Popper, Oxford, and the mistake of thinking that when A fails, B must win
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Israel Was Given Two Doors
What the Oxford debate could not ask about Israel and Palestine
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What If Syria Is the Variable?
Mazlum Abdi, the Kurds, and the Choice That Does Not Yet Exist
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The Oxford Binary Trap
Why two sides are enough for argument—but not necessarily for knowledge
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Two Doors Are Not Enough
An Introduction to the Oxford Debate Series
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Who Stole the Backspace Key?
What Kurdistan Can Teach Us About Freedom, Fallibility, and the Right to Correct Our Mistakes
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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