Matti Friedman, who worked for the AP as a reporter and editor in Jerusalem, witnessed from the inside how journalists approach the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. In two illuminating articles — published in The Atlantic and Tablet Magazine — he explores different facets of the problem. In this episode of the podcast, Elan Journo interviews Matti about … Continue reading Matti Friedman on Why Journalists Get The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Wrong
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Is there a climate of self-censorship regarding Islam? Has fear led artists and writers to avoid discussion and criticism of Islam? What was the "cartoons crisis" actually about? (Recorded December, 2014.)
Steve Simpson interviews Elan Journo on the current war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip, as well as the history and moral implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Twenty-five years ago in Tiananmen Square, China’s Communist regime massacred student protesters who sought some measure of greater freedom. Since then, although China’s economy has opened up, the regime continues to muzzle dissidents and labors studiously to make people forget. According to the New York Times: The days preceding June 4 often mean house arrest for vocal government … Continue reading Remembering Tiananmen, 25 Years Later
Ayn Rand held that an individual’s pursuit of “his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.” Fifty years ago, Rand published The Virtue of Selfishness, a groundbreaking book laying out her ethics of rational egoism. What does it look like to be selfish in your own … Continue reading The “Virtue of Selfishness”? Ayn Rand’s Ethics of Egoism in Your Own Life
Twenty years ago the “peace process” ignited fervent hopes of Middle East peace. But that policy collapsed. Peace remains elusive. Why? Now, amid the rise of Islamists, the upheaval in Egypt, the Syrian civil war, and an imminently nuclear-capable Iran, what might it take to achieve peace? Following the so-called Arab Spring, how should we … Continue reading Twenty Years After Oslo: Where Next for U.S. Foreign Policy?
An interview with scholar Matthew Levitt on his book Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God.
An interview with scholar Efraim Karsh about his book Palestine Betrayed.
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