Commentary
Israeli Intelligence Operations Inside Allied States
A set of documented cases in which Israeli intelligence, or tools built in Israel, operated inside the territory of states Israel was not at war with: a false-flag bombing campaign in Egypt that Israel eventually acknowledged, an espionage conviction in the United States, a prosecution that collapsed, and a commercial spyware industry found on the phones of officials in dozens of countries.
Religious Eschatology: What Has to Happen First
Seven traditions, seven sequences, and a set of conditions each one says must be met before the end can arrive. Laid side by side the same shape keeps recurring — and the deepest split turns out not to be what happens, but whether anything stops happening afterwards.
Where the World's Religions Agree, and Where They Only Sound Like It
Twelve traditions, fifteen questions, and a grid that grades belief in five degrees instead of two — because the interesting cases are the ones where two religions share a word and mean irreconcilable things by it. The closest pair in the set turns out to be Christianity and Islam.
BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Return of the Trust
American antitrust law was built to destroy one specific thing: the trust — competing companies whose shares sat in the hands of a common set of owners. It worked, and the trusts were broken up. The chart below is assembled entirely from companies' own SEC filings, and it shows the same arrangement standing again.