Robert Silverman on President Trump’s Postwar Gaza Remarks

How the separation of religion and state could reshape citizenship, governance, and national life in a democratic Iran For more than four decades, Iran has lived under a political system in which religion and state power have been deeply intertwined. The Islamic Republic did not merely draw inspiration from religion; it transformed religious authority into […]

In his major work on religion, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Sigmund Freud offers a broad definition of “illusion.” According to Freud, “We call a belief an illusion when wish-fulfilment is a prominent factor in its motivation and in doing so we disregard its relation to reality.” Examined in terms of Israel and world […]

An ideological boycott has been laundered into a “high controversy” risk score — and your pension is paying for it. For two decades the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement tried to make Israel a pariah on supermarket shelves and university quads. It largely failed. The grocery boycotts never bit; the student-government resolutions made headlines and […]