Writing
Ran’s essays are written as fully researched, fully cited arguments — closer to scholarly articles than to commentary. They are grouped here by subject; a complete chronological record follows at the end. Some pieces appear under more than one heading.
Politics, Israel & the State
Political Thought & Intellectual History
From the Ex-Territoriality of the Art Museum to the Over-Territoriality of the Zionist Land
The Jerusalem River Project and the Ontology of Non-Being
Technology & Ideology
Sex, Identity & Culture
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Complete bibliography
Chronological, most recent first.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “Failing Like a State.” Review of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, by Jacob Siegel. American Affairs 10, no. 3 (Fall 2026).
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “Hannah Arendt and the Nation State.” Café Américain, August 2026.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “Abolish Queer Theory!” In Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, edited by Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez, 217–269. London: Verdurin, 2025. ISBN 978-1-0684507-0-9.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “The IDF’s Cult of Technology: The Roots of the October 7 Security Disaster.” American Affairs 8, no. 3 (Fall 2024): 46–69.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “A Blindspot’s Factory.” Telem (Berl Katznelson Institute), 30 March 2024.
- Heilbrunn, Ran, et al. “We Are 75 Israeli Progressives and Peace Activists. We Are Dismayed With the Left.” Newsweek, October 2023.
- Heilbrunn, Ran, and Adam Raz. “Die internationale Linke und der Angriff auf Israel.” Der Tagesspiegel, October 2023.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “On the Loneliness of the Israeli Left.” Haokets, 7 November 2023.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “Welcome to the Age of Technopopulism.” Hazman Hazeh (Van Leer Institute), December 2022.
- Heilbrunn, Sybil, and Ran Heilbrunn. “It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature: On the High-Tech Industry and the Israeli Left.” Telem 08 (Berl Katznelson Institute), 3 August 2022.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “The Brussels Syndrome.” Pigumim, 31 August 2021.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “Land and Nation in the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Kinneret College, June 2019.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “From the Ex-Territoriality of the Art Museum to the Over-Territoriality of the Zionist Land.” Paper presented at IFTR 2016, Stockholm University, June 2016.
- Heilbrunn, Ran. “The Jerusalem River Project and the Ontology of Non-Being.” Paper presented at Theatre and Performance: Checking Borders, Haifa University, February 2016.
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