Hebraica is a weekly newsletter and podcast about Jerusalem and the world shaped by it. Through essays, conversations, and occasional dispatches, it explores Israel and the Near East from the inside out—the languages, beliefs, histories, peoples, and ideas that still shape events today. Written and hosted by Robert Nicholson.
What is Hebraica really about? Friedrich Nietzsche believed the ancient Jews launched a revolution in human values that eventually conquered Rome and transformed the Western world. He called it a catastrophe. Robert thinks he was right about the revolution and wrong about almost everything else. In this episode, Robert explains the cause behind all his other causes: the Hebraic Revolution, the strange new way of seeing God, man, and history that emerged from Jerusalem. Nietzsche named the war...
10 Sept 2026
Why America Can’t Defeat Radical Islam—and Doesn’t Need To
Can America defeat radical Islam? It's the question everyone is asking as we commemorate 9/11—but it could be the wrong question. Twenty-five years after the attacks that changed his world, Robert revisits the War on Terror, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Iran, and a new argument for overwhelming victory—the “Carthage Doctrine”—to ask what military power can and cannot accomplish. He argues that we cannot destroy an enemy’s deepest beliefs through force, and ultimately don’t need to. Wise state...
3 Sept 2026
Can Christianity Coexist With Israel? The Church and the Jewish People
In this episode of Hebraica, Robert takes up two listener questions: the tension between the Church’s universal mission and Israel’s particular identity, and the harassment of Christians by some Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem. He argues that the two questions are connected. Christianity emerged from Israel, inherited Israel’s God, Scriptures, Messiah, and vision of history—and yet much of Christian history treated the Jewish people as if they had outlived their purpose. Using the images of seed a...
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