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“The End”: now as a poem-film
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No, Israel Should Not Normalise Evil
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The Moral Collapse of Hasbara
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Israel's Last Wake-Up Call
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Anders Zorn in Hamburg: Beauty Without Apology
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Where Are Our Cultural Heroes?
How Stern, Bernstein, and Rostropovich fought for civilisation—and why no one does anymore
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Our Trains Move Faster, But Where Are We Heading?
An Essay on Travel, Time, and the Transformation of Culture
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What’s the Most Beautiful Building in the World?
The West has forgotten what beauty means.
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The Aesthetics Manifesto
Aesthetics Before Politics: The Lost Virtue of Beauty
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Why the Saudi “Peace” Deal Is a Suicide Pact
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A Rare Act of Cultural Heroism
They Tried to Silence Them - The Israel Philharmonic Answered with Hope
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Where Are Our Cultural Heroes?
How Stern, Bernstein, and Rostropovich fought for civilisation—and why no one does anymore
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The Republic of Tears
A lament for a nation that mistook sorrow for virtue.
Oct 13
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The Lost Symphony of Israel
The Israel Philharmonic, Paul Ben-Haim, and what we’re dangerously close to forgetting
Oct 10
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Day of Resurrection
Two years after October 7, a meditation on loss, heroism, and the possibility of national rebirth.
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Mahler’s Fifth Symphony Explained
A Philosophical Hero’s Journey in Music
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Gustav Mahler at 165: The Birth of a Universe
July 7, 1860 — July 7, 2025
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