Out of Babel

Out of Babel

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Olive branch or psy-op?
Who cares? What matters is where this ancient vision and vocabulary could take us.
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'A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish': Palestine Edition (part 1)
Here's a draft of my new screenplay about a (fictional) 2007 meeting of the most passionate activists engaged in the decades-long struggle to "Free…
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Do you have a 'theory of change'?
Many progressives think they can change the world. Other progressives consider those global ambitions to be a dangerous mirage.
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The Florida Project: What's wrong with this picture?
On the challenges of the present and the power of the past
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June 2025

What in the world are we talking about?
Perhaps we focus on other people's stories because it's easier than developing and living our own.
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"All roads are good," we lied.
On the high cost of pretending to believe what isn't true.
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Swords, plowshares, and the fog of (intentional) forgetfulness
The redemption of the world is too big a job for the United Nations.
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My email chat with Anwar al-Awlaki (before he was assassinated, of course)
I kept asking the key question about Islam, Israel, and the Jews, and eventually, he gave me an honest answer. It's a frightening answer, too, but it's…
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"Everyone can stay except for Jewish people."
The godfather of pogroms past returns from the dead to haunt me in the comments.
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Dazed and Confused (revisited)
Why the (radical) Left embraces anti-Zionism
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All Stories are not created equal
One day in Jerusalem, I peeked inside the head of a Muslim man and discovered that he inhabits a Story which, in his telling, ends in a massacre.
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May 2025

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