Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Orian Morris, a longtime close observer of Israeli politics and culture, a noted Israeli literary critic, a critically acclaimed novelist writing primarily in Hebrew, and a former IDF combat soldier. While serving as a paratrooper, he saw the death of his company commander in battle and participated in an ambush in which a number of Hezbollah terrorists were killed. He has authored numerous highly original and thought-provoking essays and stories for Haaretz,...

Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Paul Gross, a Senior Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Previously, Gross served as speechwriter for Israel's Ambassador to the UK. He holds an MA in Middle East Politics from the University of London, and lectures widely on Israeli history and politics. His numerous published research articles and op-eds have appeared in a variety of media outlets in Israel, the UK, the US and Canada, including The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Fathom, The...

Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Michael S. Kochin, Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. Kochin received his A.B. in mathematics at 19 from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, and Claremont McKenna College. Through September 2025 Kochin is Visiting Scholar at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby,...

The TPPI Podcast, Episode 6: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 2: "From the Battlefield of Ideas to the Battlefield, and Back": A Podcast Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Spyer Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with Jonathan Spyer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, the Middle East Forum's flagship publication, and director of research at the Forum. A journalist, he reports for Janes Intelligence Review, writes a column for...

Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with Gadi Taub, a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub previously joined us for the TPPI webinar on “Our Troubled Institutions: The End(s) of Higher Education, Post-Journalism, and Antisemitism after October 7,” which also featured Russell A. Berman and Paulina Neuding, and which is available here. For more information about TPPI's...

The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, speaks with German political scientist Dr. Matthias Küntzel about the Nazi roots of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, and about the dangers posed today by Iran. This conversation follows TPPI’s webinar of February 7, 2024, “Historians on Ideology and Politics in the 1948 War” with...

In the latest podcast of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, TPPI's Mark G. E. Kelly, organizer of the 2024 Telos conference on "Democracy Today?," speaks with Salvator Babones of the University of Sydney about democracy in India, asking him in particular about his sympathetic reading of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A video version of this interview is available here: https://youtu.be/epeq67sOccg

Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, talks with Abe Silberstein, a writer and critic based in New York, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha’aretz, The Forward, Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. Their discussion focuses on Frantz Fanon and the events of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Silberstein, Cary Nelson, and Manuela Consonni,...

Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, speaks with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ

Sherman A. Jackson discusses his article "Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights" from Telos 203 (Summer 2023).

Chih-yu Shih discusses his article "Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).

David Pan talks with Stephen Muecke about his article "Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political 'Cosmography,'" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).

David Pan talks with Matthew Dal Santo about his article "Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West’s Empire of Secularization," from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

John Milbank discusses his article "A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Paul Grenier discusses his article "Konstantin Krylov's Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Miles Yu discusses his article "Escape from Civilization's Predicaments" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

David A. Westbrook discusses his article "From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).

Michael Hüther discusses his article "Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).

Greg Melleuish and Susanna Rizzo discusses their article "Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

J. E. Elliott discusses his article "Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

Richard T. Marcy and Valerie J. D'Erman discuss their article "The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

Xudong Zhang discusses his article "China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Sijia Yao discusses her article "Third Term Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Brian Wolfel discusses his article "Thomas Carlyle’s Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).