Oren Harman

Nov 27, 2023 | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Anshel Pfeffer |Oren Harman

The name “Omid Scobie” must be one of the least popular ever uttered in Buckingham and St. James Palaces.

Nov 26, 2023 | thespectator.com | Oren Harman |Freddy Gray |Andrew McQuillan |Alys Key

Origin stories have always helped humans gain a moral compass. Locked in a tight embrace, the Maori deities Rangi and Papa are separated by their enveloped children, creating the distant father sky and nurturing Mother Earth, bringing light to the world. Mayan gods fashion man from maize after destroying earlier clay and wood versions, who are seen to have no soul. Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Life but illicitly also from the Tree of Knowledge.

Nov 26, 2023 | thespectator.com | Anshel Pfeffer |Oren Harman |Freddy Gray |Andrew McQuillan

JerusalemOn October 7, Israeli security officials were already questioning how long they would be allowed to fight in Gaza. As the Israeli Defense Forces hurriedly mobilized more than 300,000 reservists, one official told me that “destroying Hamas depends on the length of our window of legitimacy.”Last week, I was on an embed with an IDF unit in Gaza City. As the sun set over the Mediterranean, I checked the date on my watch and realized the eighteenth day of the ground campaign had just ended.

Nov 16, 2023 | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Anshel Pfeffer |Oren Harman

For those of us who believed that hell would freeze over before the Duke of Sussex was welcomed back into the bosom of his family, it will have come as a surprise when it was revealed that Prince Harry would be phone-calling King Charles on his seventy-fifth birthday this week. It has been reported that the call went well: over the course of a warm conversation, during which Meghan also spoke to her father-in-law, plans were set in motion for more regular chats between the two.

Nov 15, 2023 | spectator.com.au | Oren Harman

Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality Hurst, pp.424, 25 Origin stories have always helped humans gain a moral compass. Locked in a tight embrace, the Maori deities Rangi and Papa are separated by their enveloped children, creating the distant father sky and nurturing Mother Earth, bringing light to the world. Mayan gods fashion man from maize after destroying earlier clay and wood versions, who are seen to have no soul.