Steven Teplitsky
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- Sep 29, 2026
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From Napalm to NAZA: An entitled guide to other people's mortar fire (opens the original)
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Steven Teplitsky is creator and publisher of The Witness Ledger substack. If there is one eternal, ironclad law of human civilization-right up there with gravity, compound interest, and the inevitability of bad tax policy-it is this: the people who feel the moral urge to explain war over cocktails are never the ones pulling shrapnel out of their boot heels. Back in 1968, when America was busy turning Southeast Asian foliage into charcoal, the class division was refreshingly candid. If your dad r
The United Kingdom's colonialism - then and now (opens the original)
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History, when stripped of the pious humbug of the pedagogues, leaves little mystery as to how genuine empires do business. The trade of the authentic conqueror has always been a straightforward racket, requiring only three things: gunboats, sovereign decrees, and an insatiable appetite for someone else’s property. Look upon the genuine imperial roll call: The United Kingdom: Planted its standard across India, North America, Australia, and half of Africa through sheer, unblushing naval supremacy.
Filastin, Syria, and the Turkish Shadow (opens the original)
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Steven Teplitsky is the creator and publisher of The Witness Ledger substack. The Witness does not predict the future. She remembers the past. Original visual essays on politics, history, memory, and recurring human folly. Diplomacy has an enduring, almost sentimental habit of mistaking treaty paper for the permanent contours of the human landscape. For the better part of a century, generation after generation of Western diplomats looked at the map of the modern Levant and saw what they believed
How did Qatar become so wealthy? (opens the original)
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Steven Teplitsky, Ph.D. graduated from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Jewish Studies. Today we look at a quiet technical triumph-a breakthrough in applied physics that took a desolate patch of sand and transformed it into a global titan. You know the stories of sliced bread, the telegraph, or pasteurization. Simple, unpretentious inventions that quietly rewired how human beings live. Today’s story belongs on that same shelf, but it doesn’t come from a laboratory in Paris or a bakery in
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