Shoumojit Banerjee

Trump’s Hormuz blockade seeks to weaponize a chokepoint that history shows is far easier to disrupt than to control. Across centuries, for rulers and states alike, to command a narrow strait has been to wield power far out of proportion to its geography. From the Hellespont of antiquity to the Danish Sound, chokepoints have tempted them with the promise of effortless leverage. The Strait of Hormuz is the latest test of that enduring illusion. If the latest stream of conflicting signals from...

For a man who once seemed immovable, Viktor Orbán has exited the stage with surprising procedural grace. After 16 years of uninterrupted rule – the longest period by any serving leader in the European Union - Hungary’s most formidable political operator since the Cold War recently conceded defeat to Péter Magyar and his insurgent Tisza party, which secured a two-thirds majority on the back of record turnout. At a time where strongmen often cling to power, Orbán’s quiet acceptance of the...

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem On April 11, 1961, in a converted cultural hall called Beit Ha’am in Jerusalem, the world witnessed an extraordinary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century - the Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were systematically murdered under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Sitting behind a bulletproof glass booth was Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS officer who had served as head of Jewish affairs in the Nazi security apparatus and...