№ 2026.Jul.11-004

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Trump's War, and Killing to the Rhythm of the Stock Market

Alexander Zevin ｜ Reading by Reading by Editor

A man who came to power on "no more stupid wars" has launched the war against Iran that the neoconservatives always dreamed of. In NLR 158, Zevin sets this war back into history — from the farce of Napoleon III to the cautionary precedents of the two Gulf Wars, from the myth of air power to market manipulation become reason of state.

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№ 2026.Jul.11-002

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When "Loving the Jews" Becomes a Thought Police

Nancy Fraser ｜ Reading by Reading by Editor

Nancy Fraser had her professorship revoked by the University of Cologne because she refused to publicly retract her criticism of Israel. She turned the experience into a diagnosis of a "world event" — Gaza is not merely a regional conflict; it is a mirror, and in it Germany and the United States see the true face of their own "philosemitic McCarthyism."

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