Book description
âA brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.ââSamantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophyâas well as the author's own experience of life on three continentsâ Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
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Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran â and Itself
Itâs been almost a year since Oct. 7. More than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza are dead. The hostages are not all home, and it doesnât look like there will be a cease-fire deal that brings them home anytime soon. Israeli politics is deeply divided, and the countryâs international reputation is in tatters. The Palestinian Authority is weak. A war may break out in Lebanon soon. There is no vision for the day after and no theory of what comes next.
So I wanted to talk to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. Remnick has been reporting from Israel for decades and has a deep familiarity and history with both the region and the politics and the people who are driving it. He first profiled Benjamin Netanyahu back in 1998. In 2013, he profiled Naftali Bennett, the politician leading Netanyahu in polls of who Israelis think is best suited to be prime minister. And he recently profiled Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza.
In this conversation, we talk about what Remnick learned profiling Netanyahu, Bennett and Sinwar, as well as where Israelâs overlapping conflicts with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Hezbollah and Iran sit after nearly a year of war. Remnick and I were both recently in Israel and the West Bank, as well as near Israelâs border with Lebanon, and we discuss our impressions from those trips.
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