Modern Western strategic thinking still likes to present itself as the child of the Enlightenment: Rationality, progress, order, and law. However, the…
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The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration. Simultaneously, state violence, militarization,…
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White…
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To understand a person is sometimes to hold onto the sentence they left behind: “The thought that if I fall as a…
Social freedom is not merely a historical process, but the re-establishment of the human mind, its moral coordinates, and its existential horizon.…
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