Selected essays, scholarship, and public contributions by Ran Heilbrunn, working at the intersection of political philosophy, technology, and contemporary affairs. His long-form essays are written as extensively researched, fully cited arguments — closer to scholarly articles than to commentary.

Scholarship

  • Book chapter — “Abolish Queer Theory!” in Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual (London: Verdurin, 2025), 217–269. ISBN 978-1-0684507-0-9. Buy on Amazon
  • Conference paper — “Land and Nation in the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.” Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Kinneret College, June 2019.
  • Conference paper — “From the Ex-Territoriality of the Art Museum to the Over-Territoriality of the Zionist Land.” IFTR 2016, Stockholm University, June 2016.
  • Conference paper — “The Jerusalem River Project and the Ontology of Non-Being.” Theatre and Performance: Checking Borders, Haifa University, February 2016.

Essays & Criticism

  • “Failing Like a State.” American Affairs 10, no. 2 (Summer 2026), forthcoming.
  • “The IDF’s Cult of Technology.” American Affairs 8, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 46–69. — a ~10,000-word, fully referenced essay (32 endnotes).
  • “A Blindspot’s Factory.” Telem (Berl Katznelson Institute), 2024.
  • “We Are 75 Israeli Progressives and Peace Activists. We Are Dismayed With the Left.” Newsweek, October 2023.
  • “Die internationale Linke und der Angriff auf Israel” (with Adam Raz). Der Tagesspiegel, October 2023.
  • “On the Loneliness of the Israeli Left.” Haoketz, November 2023.
  • “Welcome to the Age of Technopopulism.” Hazman Hazeh (Van Leer Institute), 2022.
  • “It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature: On the High-Tech Industry and the Israeli Left.” Telem (Berl Katznelson Institute), 2022.
  • “The Brussels Syndrome.” Pigumim, 2021.

Talks & Media

  • Talk — “Return to Sodom,” a Verdurin symposium, London, February 2025. Programme.
  • Bungacast #543 — “Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity” (2026), on “Abolish Queer Theory!”
  • Tel Aviv Review (TLV1) — “When Everybody Is LGBT, Nobody Is” (2026).
  • TheMarker — Episode 187 (2024), on technology and the October 7 intelligence failure.
  • Geekonomy #648 (2022), on Israeli high-tech and inequality.

Profiles: Tel Aviv University · Wittenborg University.

As an Amazon Associate, this site earns from qualifying purchases.