To understand this war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, you must understand Twelver Shiism—an apocalyptic ideology that sees Israel’s destruction as divine prophecy. 🧵

Hezbollah’s downfall was not the result of a battle lost or a lapse in resolve, but the sudden and total collapse of a strategic worldview, write @Jsp_Nic and Adi Asi.

The Trinity Test—the first detonation of a nuclear weapon—occurred on this day in 1945, changing history forever.

The Trump administration is proposing to end support for some of the cutting-edge scientific research that is crucial to America's economic propensity and military security, writes @LKrauss1.

Why we must never allow Iran, an absolutist theocracy whose leaders see martyrdom as a sacred calling, to obtain nuclear weapons. By @jaysophalkalyan.

A critical part of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s budget equation may evaporate with a judicial pen stroke in the very near future, writes @PhilWMagness.

Sandie Peggie, a nurse at NHS Fife, was suspended for refusing to change beside a male doctor identifying as a woman. In Scotland, defending women’s boundaries can cost you your job—while the state spends £220k fighting you in court.

As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist @DrJoshuaRoose joins @zoecabina to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.

On this day in 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille—a defining moment of the French Revolution still commemorated as Bastille Day.

The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model, writes John Tagg.

Milan Kundera, author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' died on July 11, 2023. He is remembered as one of the 20th century’s great novelists.

"There was also a profit motive involved along with the general cruelty of the Nazi regime. Himmler, who leased the land that Ravensbrück was built upon, had established a business in which he was the major stockholder.".

Disco Demolition Night was an early episode of culture and counterculture being saddled with far greater political significance than they deserved, writes George Case.

RT @IonaItalia: The pressure for a mediated peace is growing, but the parties involved have very different ideas of what that would entail.….

RT @IonaItalia: "Whether the cause is Gaza, climate change, Black Lives Matter, or feminism, overrepresentation of young women has become t….

Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population, writes Benny Morris.

Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking, writes @clairlemon.

An exhibit in the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall repeats the false claim that the bodies of ‘215 Indigenous children’ were found at Kamloops, B.C. in ‘unmarked graves.’ By @jonkay .

The philosopher Stephen Harrop (@d08890) interviews Quillette’s Managing Editor @IonaItalia about her book Anxious Employment on the journalism of Enlightenment London.

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A common misconception among first-year social work students is the assumption—often viewed through a racial lens—that Black or Brown individuals inherently have worse experiences in America than white individuals.