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The far right in Israel largely celebrated Donald Trump's presidential triumph and believes it now has the latitude to enact some of its more controversial policies. Journalist Asher Schechter examines anti-democratic trends in Israel, and argues the right has yet to offer a cohesive, sustainable blueprint for the country's future.

The concluding words of Donna J. Haraway's essay 'A Cyborg Manifesto' read, "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess". In this article, I aim to determine the extent to which that declaration implicates the question of the female body in representation—particularly, the goddess's. Building on existing work that examines the female body in relation to the tradition of the nude in painting, I explore the possibility of assigning an identity to the goddess that Haraway chooses the cyborg over—specifically that of Venus, the mythological goddess of love and beauty, which I further read within the framework offered by the collaborative exchange between Haraway and the artist Lynn Randolph. In light of this, I position the cyborg and goddess within a certain vision of the relationship between women, nature and technology. In my conclusion, I call for a consideration of the possibility of a posthuman goddess.

A review essay on books by (1) Paul Lettow, Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (New York: Random House, 2005); & (2) Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (New York: Random House, 2005).