Debates

In the realm of intellectual discourse, George Bernard Shaw’s dictum, “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth,” resonates profoundly. This axiom underscores a fundamental parallel …
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Two political gestures have recently taken place on the world stage. On May 10, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, shredded the cover of the UN charter at the …
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Welcome back to our salon, Hannah Arendt. Five years ago, you sat together with Donald Trump. Tonight, we are discussing not a wall between two countries but the lack thereof, …
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Prophetic Irony

Just over one month ago, on April 15, Ukraine was saddened to hear about the loss of an outstanding sergeant, an aerial recon specialist of the 59th Separate …
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Two days ago, I declared on social media that I felt compelled to watch this edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Not because I wished to endorse genocide in any …
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The title of my essay, “Framing Palestine,” has a double meaning. First, I’m using “framing” to describe the ways we try to make sense of Palestine—more specifically, how we make …
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Why am I, as a Hegelian philosopher, so fascinated by quantum mechanics? What we find in quantum physics is something that is usually considered an exclusive feature of the symbolic …
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On March 8 it was reported that at least five residents of Gaza were killed by the airdrops of humanitarian aid at the Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City. Less …
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‘The threat of one catastrophe is deferred by that of others’ (T. Adorno)

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We should never lose sight of the bigger picture. The string of geopolitical conflicts …
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1. No memory exists in a vacuum. To remember is always to remember something else, and be reminded of yet another something, and another thing. These cascades of associations and …
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