Are You Consumed by Fear?

Your ancestors lived in a world about which they understood very little. We, by contrast, should lead relatively fear-free lives. But all the evidence suggests that fear now plays a bigger part […]

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Israel is trapped by Western guilt

“Great wars in history eventually became great wars about history,” wrote the Israeli-American historian Michael Oren in 1999. It’s hard to think of a country for which this is more obviously true than Israel, though Ireland, Ukraine or even today’s …

The failed lessons of Libya

On 11 September, massive floods created by Storm Daniel ruptured two dams built in the Seventies to protect Derna in eastern Libya, exposing its denizens to unstoppable torrents of water. The smell of rotting bodies and sewage seeping from busted …