11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1136+ words) A new defense compact linking Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia may never place another army on India’s border. Its real power lies in the weapons, intelligence, and diplomatic pressure it could bring to Pakistan’s side during the next crisis. Twenty-four…...

11+ hour, 32+ min ago   (568+ words) How is my brother? Despite the heroic team effort, he doesn’t survive long after his multiple emergency surgeries. The soldier who lost both legs survives. I don’t have a way to make that make sense. I only have the fact…...

12+ hour, 14+ min ago   (660+ words) Bevan Lee’s Australian television series, A Place To Call Home, definitely strikes a chord. A vibrant family drama consisting of 67 episodes, it is now available on the Amazon Prime platform. I was inexorably drawn into it from the very start....

12+ hour, 14+ min ago   (331+ words) When a casualty notification officer knocks on a door in Israel and tells parents that their son has been killed, she now tells them one thing more: that his sperm can be retrieved and that there are only hours to…...

12+ hour, 2+ min ago   (949+ words) In my former capacity as head of school, principal and now executive coach and day school consultant, I am often asked to describe the characteristics of an outstanding or exemplary head of school or day school principal. Although there are…...

12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (733+ words) When organizations begin preparing for the Quantum Era, the conversation usually starts in the same place: encryption. And for good reason, much of the digital world depends on cryptographic systems built around mathematical problems that are extremely difficult for today’s…...

17+ hour, 33+ min ago   (387+ words) Few novels offer insight not only into how America sees itself, but also into how it may be perceived by parts of the Muslim world. Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, published in 2007, is one of them. Written in the aftermath…...

14+ hour, 32+ min ago   (594+ words) New York Magazine’s recent Grub Street article, “When Eating Out Is Political,” tells a compelling story about the changing identity of Middle Eastern restaurants in New York. But the inaccuracies begin right at the start: the history of Israeli restaurants…...

16+ hour, 52+ min ago   (911+ words) Ritual, Rhythm, and the Mind: Nadal, the Five Prayers, and the Architecture of Inner Stability There is a moment before every Rafael Nadal serve that feels almost liturgical. He adjusts his shorts. Touches his nose. Pulls his shirt. Taps his…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago   (696+ words) A lone protester outside my embassy raised an obvious question: How would replacing the Middle East’s only free country with yet another authoritarian Arab state advance the cause of freedom? As I drove back to the embassy today, one man…...