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A journey well travelled
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Wow, yโall made it. The journey was fun and exciting. You chose well and your offsprings are a testimony to the cause of your travels. You ran because your parents walked and your children are flying now. Say hi to the big man and watch over those you …
Britain, Israel and the Habit of Alignment: Strategy, Law, and the Politics of Loyalty
There are moments in foreign policy when a country looks less like a sovereign actor and more like a reflex. The United Kingdomโs posture toward the war in Gaza and the widening confrontation between Israel and Iran has raised precisely that question: is this strategy, inertia, or something closer to muscle memory? The UK is …
The Art of the Deal, Reloaded: When Negotiation Comes with Cruise Missiles by Lawson Akhigbe
There is negotiation as taught in law school โ offer, counter-offer, consideration, good faith. And then there is negotiation as practiced by Donald Trump โ open with an airstrike, tweet in all caps, and call it leverage. Welcome to 2020s diplomacy, where the pre-action protocol reads less like the Vienna Convention and more like a …
Why Doesnโt Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism? Immigration isnโt breaking our society. We are. By Adam Serwer
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP During a White House meeting on Tuesday, surrounded by his Cabinet, President Donald Trump referred to Somali immigrants as โgarbageโ and said, โWe donโt want them in our country.โ No one in Trumpโs Cabinet stood up to this expression of gutter racism, although Vice President J. D. Vance enthusiastically banged …
Deuteronomy 8:3
Where would you go on a shopping spree? โMan shall not live by bread aloneโ this is a biblical injunction and bread includes shopping sprees. I will go shopping but not on a spree. The local market and corner shop not just for bread but interactions with others.

