Lihi Lapid is a best-selling Israeli novelist and author of an essay collection and children’s books, as well as a journalist and photographer who speaks regularly about women’s issues.

A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.

In the last two months, President Donald Trump’s rebranding of the Department of Defense — aka the Department of War — has steadily gained ground in Washington and changed the way people talk about ...