“Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” (June 7 on Hulu): I’m skeptical of these kinds of biopic TV projects (Apple’s “The New Look,” about ...

Democracy requires educated citizens. Government needs competent servants. The education system produces neither in sufficient number. From your local preschool to the Harvard Kennedy School, American ...

But seeing statecraft as a tragic balancing of evils is still essential, especially amid the kind of moral fervor that ...

Only the Astronauts is a follow-up to Dovey’s earlier collection, Only the Animals (2014), published a decade ago to general ...

With the launch of this column last week, we officially set sail on a grand and far-reaching journey that will eventually ...

In a number public hospitals around France, the staff rooms of junior doctors – where they take meals and hold parties – are ...

There is a Jewish joke, often attributed to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more ...

No doubt many campus protesters have these motivations. The difficulty is that liberal “freedom” is on offer almost nowhere in the Middle East, certainly not in Gaza under Hamas’ rule, and the most ...

On October 12, as Israel indiscriminately bombed Gaza, the French police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters ...

Pseudo-intellectual idol to the masses, Yuval Noah Harari's imaginary Zionism is so far-fetched he may as well be living on ...

After page upon page of Hamas apologia, of nationalist clichés, and Israeli demonisation, Achcar takes an unseen turn. As the war drags on—and these essays unroll in real time–he laments ‘there is ...

As the sun set in Israel on Sunday evening, the country marked its first Memorial Day since Hamas’ October 7 attack, when ...