Richard Hurowitz

1 month ago | wallstreetjournal-ny-app.newsmemory.com | Richard Hurowitz

SHARE SHARE Herbert Hoover’s Plan for Palestinian Refugee Resettlement By Richard Hurowitz Donald Trump isn’t the first businessman- turned- president to try to make peace in the Middle East via real-estate development. Eight decades ago, Herbert Hoover, by then a private citizen, twice put forward his own such ideas. His proposals were informed by deep engineering knowledge and a heartfelt humanitarian concern for the plight of persecuted Jews.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Richard Hurowitz

Donald Trump isn’t the first businessman-turned-president to try to make peace in the Middle East via real-estate development. Eight decades ago, Herbert Hoover, by then a private citizen, twice put forward his own such ideas. His proposals were informed by deep engineering knowledge and a heartfelt humanitarian concern for the plight of persecuted Jews.

1 month ago | octavian.substack.com | Richard Hurowitz

Few Westerners have more insight into China and its ruler, Xi Jinping, than Kevin Rudd, the 26th Prime Minister of Australia. Fluent in Mandarin, former head of the Asia Society, and with years of personal experience interacting with Xi and other Chinese leaders, Rudd recently earned his doctorate from Oxford — after leaving office(!) — and published his dissertation, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World.

2 months ago | octavian.substack.com | Richard Hurowitz

If you don’t know about the ideology of “settler colonialism,” you need to. If you want to understand how student activists and elite academics – who cherish progressive values – can gleefully support Hamas, you need to understand settler colonialism. Or if you want to know why the term “genocide” no longer means killing people. Or why the term “settler” no longer means someone living in the West Bank.

Feb 19, 2024 | time.com | Richard Hurowitz

IdeasFebruary 20, 2024 4:00 AM ESTHurowitz is a writer, investor and publisher of the Octavian Report, the quarterly magazine of ideas. His new book is IN THE GARDEN OF THE RIGHTEOUSWe live in a time of darkness, surrounded by frightening echoes of the past and, since October 7, horrific barbarism defended by many of those claiming an Orwellian moral high ground. But tragic moments can also be historic turning points.