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Part one of the series can be found here. Let us come up the rough side of the mountain. After writing “Embracing the Repression,” I was asked about how to make courage contagious. After mulling this over for some time, I have concluded that I do not know for certain. That said, courage has a [...]

Lawyers representing Venezuelan immigrants threatened with deportation filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday to block the removals. The Trump administration was prepared to deport dozens of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador last Friday before the Supreme Court blocked the action. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called for the [...]

Part two of the series can be found here. When I read CNN’s piece about  a pro-Israel group sharing with the Trump administration a Palestine activist “deportation” list, I immediately thought of Edwin Black’s foreword in IBM and the Holocaust, in which he questioned where the Nazis got their lists in the first place. That [...]

Part one of the series can be found here. Part two of the series can be found here. During the War on Terror, force drift was explained to me as the concept that increasing levels of force are seen to be reasonable, and there is an almost unstoppable trend toward the use of more and [...]

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” Israel must defend itself in both law and strategy. Though generally unacknowledged, this dual-level defense could prove gainful not just for Israel, but also for other “civilized nations” in world politics. A patently core obligation, it is universal in scope and justice-seeking in objective. Multiple [...]

In recent weeks, the administration of US President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign against major law firms that have in the past represented political opponents. Within a two-week period, Trump issued executive orders targeting firms Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie. Both firms have ties to individuals who have been thorns in the [...]

Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of secular considerations. Though far less decipherable and recognizable, these expressions may also include implicit promises of personal immortality. There is meaningful [...]

In a significant shake-up at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the top military lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. This decision comes amid a broader series of dismissals across the Department of Defense (DOD), including that of Charles “CQ” Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — [...]

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” Cicero, The Laws  During the coming year, the United States, in occasional concert with Israel, must confront expanding terrorist threats. Topping pertinent concerns in Washington and Jerusalem will be a sordid assortment of jihadi groups, some spawned by the al-Assad regime collapse in Syria and [...]

In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]