Insights | The Truth About Torture: Depicting CIA Abuses in ‘The Torture Report’
Excerpt from ‘The Torture Report’ | Photo courtesy Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón On September 17,…
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Insights | “Crude Democracy” Book Review
A woman walks past a gas pipeline near the city of Asaluyeh, Iran, Jan. 22,…
Insights | Prophesying the Present: Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission”
Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” should bear a trigger warning | Photo courtesy WSJ blogs With the French Presidential…
Insights | Making Sense of the Trump-Putin Relationship
Rumors of a special relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Insights | Gay, Palestinian, Israeli: Caught between conflicting identities
Jake Witzenfeld presented his documentary Oriented at New York University’s Gallatin School, sparking a conversation…
Insights | A Leaderless Movement: Gordon Brown on Globalization
The room was filled with an impatient buzz. Students and faculty looked around, both…
Insights | Is Footing the Peacekeeping Bill Enough?
Austria sends more. Uruguay, Yemen and Denmark send more. Even Finland sends more troops to…
Insights | Reducing Uncertainty
[Originally posted here] Books and movies often portray U.S. intelligence as a salacious world of…
The World We Lost and How We Get it Back: Book Review of Ill Fares the Land
Europe has lost its direction. Seven years after the financial crisis, most of the continent…
Insights | Slavoj Žižek talks about Greece and Syriza
It is incredibly difficult to listen to Slavoj Žižek without allowing his personality to obscure…