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[From a memo to Mr. Kenneth Templeton at the William Volker Fund, April 18, 1962.] It is not often that one is privileged to review a book of monumental import, a truly significant “breakthrough” from obscuran­tism to historical knowledge and insight...

By Vacy Vlazna | Intifada-Palestine | November 13, 2013 Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview that his country supports the U...

The seeds of neoliberal economic policy were planted during the founding years of twentieth century liberalism. The Democrats’ current embrace of  fiscal conservatism is claimed by contemporary self-proclaimed New Dealers to be a repudiation...

To be utterly frank, Dear Reader, we do not even pretend to fully understand the current Middle East crisis and have even less idea what to do about it. It is times like this that we are very pleased we no longer pursue politics as a career. This map...

In which way this new Islamic State is Islamic? Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State? Published 10 March, 2015 The conventional wisdom suggests a violent reading of the Quran is at the heart of Islamic State’s political violence – but it’s wrong...