Shalom Lappin offers a meticulous review essay of Jacqueline Rose’s The Question of Zion – which characterises Zionism as a collective mental disorder induced by centuries of Jewish suffering. In what is possibly the most serious critical treatment that the …
Speaking on the BBC, the political commentator David Wilby called The Euston Manifesto ‘more than a set of principles, it’s a phenomenon.’ When the Manifesto was launched in April the writer Will Hutton expressed the hope it would ‘offer a …
Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (1997), Terror and Liberalism (2003) and Power and the Idealists, or, The Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath (2005). Over …
Editor’s Note: This is a version of a speech given at a conference organised by MedBridge Strategy Center, Camus: Moral Clarity in an Age of Terror, in Paris, 25 February, 2006.
Kanan Makiya is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University, and the President of The Iraq Memory Foundation. His books, The Republic of Fear: Inside Saddam’s Iraq (1989, written as Samir al- Khalil) …
What is really at stake in the furore over the Danish cartoons? André Glucksmann argues it is nothing less than the defence of the distinction between fact and belief that lies at the heart of western thought. Rejecting the Islamists’ …
Norman Geras reviews Larry May’s Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account. He identifies a tension within Larry May’s conception of crimes against humanity, arguing that one of the two central principles at the heart of it undermines the other. He …
Kanan Makiya is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University, and the President of The Iraq Memory Foundation. His books, The Republic of Fear: Inside Saddam’s Iraq (1989, written as Samir al-Khalil] and …
Martin Shaw is a sociologist of war and global politics and holds the Chair of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. He studied Sociology at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1968. Martin has been a …
Slavoj Žižek, the brilliant and prolific social theorist, named his book Iraq: the Borrowed Kettle after a joke analysed by Freud. Josh Cohen finds an ‘undeniably seductive charge’ in Žižek’s prose, but also, in his arguments, ‘a certain theoretical and …
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. Among her books are Just War Against Terror. The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (Basic Books, 2003), Jane …
Czeslaw Milosz’s poem Sarajevo begins with the lines ‘Now, when a revolution is really needed, those who were once fervent are cool / While a country, raped and murdered calls for help from the Europe it trusted / While statesmen …
