What does it mean for a racially designated person to no longer accept that designation? I didn’t fully realise the significance of being coded as black until I was thirteen. I grew up in a proud Brit
The Germanic god Odin tended a smorgasbord of divine duties — healing, death, poetry and knowledge among them — but he might have been a somewhat less powerful one-eyed immortal without his animal hel
(A young protester holds a sign in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on June 10, 2020. By Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images.) In the mid-2010s, a curious new vocabulary began to unspool itself i
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Le Tribunal constitutionnel de la République fédérale d’Allemagne a rendu le 5 mai dernier un arrêt jugeant que les décisions de la Banque Centrale Européenne (BCE) sur la mise en œuvre de son program
Certain environmentalists have long argued that economic growth must end for the sake of the planet. “Degrowth” is concisely defined by one proponent, Riccardo Mastini, as “the abolition of economic g
Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office 's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone
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“J ews to the gas.” “Jews to the oven.” “Kill the Jews.” These are standard sentiments in the streets of Tehran and Gaza City. But earlier this year, those chilling slogans, chanted by tens of thousan
It was a scene that seemed anachronistic and perplexing to Western observers. For a few brief moments on July 1st 2019, the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China, the British colonial
Former US president Bill Clinton said Wednesday that the Palestinians were offered the Temple Mount at the Camp David Summit in 2000, but the agreement fell through over a sliver of land near the West
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When good men who did great things pass into the next life, they leave an example for this one. Tom Derek Bowden was 17 when he first set foot in the land that once was – and would again be – Israel.
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The Time We Thought We Knew It was an unlikely place to be at 4:30 a.m., since I'm not much on celebrations and take minimal notice of most every holiday. Yet, a few years back, on a rainy Dec. 31 mor
Is Anti-Semitism Exceptional? The inevitable decline of left-wing philo-Semitism. March 9, 2019 Orthodox Jews with the group Jews United Against Zionism outside the office of Representative Ilhan Omar
La santé a occupé une place centrale dans les élections de mi-mandat de novembre 2018 qui semblent avoir marqué la fin d’années de controverses autour de l’Obamacare. De nouveaux thèmes occupent aujou
Our Culture of Contempt The problem in America today is not incivility or intolerance. It’s something far worse. March 2, 2019 Credit... Niv Bavarsky By Mr. Brooks is a scholar of public policy and th
Quelques heures avant d’être violemment pris à partie et insulté par des “gilets jaunes” aux cris de “Sale sioniste de merde ! Casse-toi !”, “Sale Juif !”, “Palestine !”, “Rentre chez toi à Tel-Aviv !
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Professeur émérite des Universités, Shmuel Trigano est philosophe et sociologue, spécialiste de la tradition hébraïque et du judaïsme contemporain. Le débat qui divise l'Union européenne aujourd'hui,
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First Words The Political ‘Center’ Isn’t Gone — Just Disputed Credit... Photo illustration by Derek Brahney/New Studio In politics, the visuals matter. We imagine the electorate in red and blue, solid
The Progressive Assault on Israel A movement that can detect a racist dog-whistle from miles away is strangely deaf when it comes to some of the barking on its own side of the fence. Feb. 8, 2019 Demo
Why People Ghost — and How to Get Over It Time to go ghostbusting. Credit... Pablo Rochat By Jan. 22, 2019 Leer en español Something strange happened at the coffee shop the other day. The gentleman in
We desperately need clear and honest thinking about our choices - not just for the weeks but for the years, indeed decades, ahead. Our political debate is bedevilled by what, at the time I resigned, I
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There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ To understand why, you have to zoom out. Jan. 16, 2019 A view of the wall dividing Jerusalem, in background, from the Palestinian town of Abu Dis in the West
Zuckerberg's personal challenges have morphed into a corporate branding tool. That's not good for Facebook, or for Zuckerberg. There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenges were personal
For 20 years or so, there has been the debate over whether you should use www or not in your web site’s canonical hostname. So should you use www or not? Some historical background Even though people
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Is it possible to share coats with this little guy? Sustainable wool may be the answer. As we enter fall, feelings of bitter winter chill are already surfacing in my body despite the unusually high te
At ten o’clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook , opened the front door of his house in Palo Alto, California, wearing the tight smile of obligation
Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th December 2012 There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already,
20 octobre 2018 Entretien inédit pour le site de Ballast Les effets de la consommation de viande sur la santé et l’environnement sont bien connus : l’élevage est l’une des premières causes du ré
You now have permission to freak out. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like