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If you think of nationalism as a disease, a pathology of ideology, it is indicated by common transnational symptoms. Regardless of the country and its history, nationalism always…
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“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.”—Theresa May At roughly 2 a.m. on 24 June 2016, I experienced a deep sense of grief —it felt as if…
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A few weeks ago, in an interlude bizarre even in this time of badly broken politics in the Western world, one of President Barack Obama’s top advisers explained boastfully how he…
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The signature event on the Jewish political calendar in 2016 was the emergence of Senator Sanders as the first Jewish hopeful ever to mount a credible major-party presidential…
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Journalists-turned-thriller writers Jonathan Freedland and Adam LeBor compare storytelling in fact and fiction in JQ Spring 2016: JONATHAN FREEDLAND: I think there’s a reason…
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Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) Sir Martin Gilbert has died at seventy eight. He was one of the leading historians of his generation and perhaps the most prolific British historian…
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Elsa used to begin each of her therapy sessions by saying to her patients: “So, now, tell me!” So, I would like for us to listen to her invitation to hear other people’s words,…
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Keith Kahn-Harris, guest editor of Jewish Quarterly, and Helen Lewis, deputy editor of New Statesman, discuss the anger that permeates the online world and how, as editors, they…
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It was a sad summer in Israel. Almost everyone I met commented how awful London must be, with its ‘anti-Semitism and the Muslim takeover’. I pointed out that ten times almost zero…
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An excerpt from After Gaza, a unique supplement offering a range of responses from opinion-shapers on the summer's Gaza conflict, by Philippe Sands. The summer has offered…
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