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Back to SearchHow Revolutionary Was Israel's 'Constitutional Revolution'?
Amichai Cohen, Professor of Law at Ono Academic College and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute discusses his new book The Constitutional…
4 years, 11 months ago
Governance vs. Governability: More Than Just Semantics
Edna Harel-Fischer, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute's Center for Religion, Nation and State and the Center for Democratic values,…
5 years ago
The Naked Truth
The Tel Aviv Review takes a detour to follow the path of American nudists (intellectually). From the late 19th century to the prudish post-war years,…
5 years ago
Are All Undemocratic Autocrats Autocratic In Their Own Way?
The putative omnipotence of Vladimir Putin has led many to view Russia as a uniquely autocratic country. In Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Pu…
5 years ago
This Land Is My Land, It Isn't Your Land
A historian's hunch led Nancy MacLean to the archives of James McGill Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also incidentally became the pa…
5 years ago
Poland's Hunting Season
Prof. Jan Grabowski, a Polish-Canadian historian, discusses Jewish-Polish relations during the Nazi occupation, as well as the politics of memory in …
5 years ago
From Babylon to Jerusalem and Back
David N Myers and Benjamin Ravid, professors of Jewish history at UCLA and Brandeis University, respectively, discuss the life and work of Simon Rawi…
5 years, 1 month ago
Self-Hating Democracy?
Why would citizens vote freely for political leaders plotting or even promising to attack their democracy? Why do certain policies, parties or people…
5 years, 1 month ago
Populist-Progressive Feminist Alliance or Opportunistic Nationalism?
Since when do xenophobic nationalist political actors in Europe devote themselves to gender equality, protection of women and human rights?
Véronique…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Poisoned Fruit of Facebook
Facebook may not be the source of all evils – but at least many of them. In his book Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Dem…
5 years, 2 months ago