Articles by Richard Landes

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/12/22/address-to-spme-conference-in-berlin-commemorating-10-years-of-german-spme/Thank you very much for this occasion to address you, and congratulations on gathering this august assembly of information professionals committed to peace in the Middle East. SPME was first founded in the early aughts […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/12/21/je-debatte-avec-marius-schattner-au-sujet-de-trump-et-jerusalem/

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/12/21/je-debats-avec-marius-schattner-au-sujet-de-trump-et-jerusalem/ Au sujet de Marius Schattner, voir l’article de Meir Ben-Ayoun sur Facebook.

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/12/03/note-on-self-criticism-from-blaise-pascale-via-eric-hoffer/Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/09/13/7419/Melissa Jane Kronfled of the WJC interviewed me today on Pallywood and its implications. She’s an excellent interviewer, and I stayed largely coherent despite my characteristic roundabout answers.

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/09/11/german-arrogance-2017/My colleague and correspondent Doyle Quiggle, who has lived in Germany for many years, has written a lengthy response to my article in the Tablet, which deserves its own post. This outlandishly sane moral analysis […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/09/03/deuteronomy-23-16-17-and-the-medieval-communes/Deuteronomy 23: 16-17 and the Medieval Communes in honor of the Yahrzeit of David S. Landes טז  לֹא-תַסְגִּיר עֶבֶד, אֶל-אֲדֹנָיו, אֲשֶׁר-יִנָּצֵל אֵלֶיךָ, מֵעִם אֲדֹנָיו.   16 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2017/07/09/the-small-kindness-quran-107-a-magnanimous-solution-to-the-arab-israeli-conflict/Positive-sum westerners see “two states” as the obvious solution to the conflict on the land between the river and the sea. But analyzed in terms of honor-shame reasoning and the players involved, not only is that solution […]