The civilizing mission of the white man
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.
Israel
The Price of Leadership
A new series of documentaries explore the politics of leadership via an imaginative, malleable, deeply personal treatment of history.
Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.
Apartheid South Africa and Apartheid Israel
Apartheid South Africa and Israel had a close relationship from the inception of the latter. Postapartheid, there are attempts to reverse that.