Is this, as the kids say, you?

My god. The horror. The absolute and utter inhumanity.

The brave students at Columbia and other universities have held a mirror to the face of the US empire. The state uses extreme force against its own children at home in a futile attempt to crush their dissent against the state's facilitation of a genocide abroad.

Now that Hamilton Hall has been cleared, Columbia students can go to class and learn about the glories of liberalism.

*This* is the fucking alternative to Trump?

Lock him up.

What accounts for the wave of retired SEALs hawking stupid shit online? Jasper Craven explains how the Navy unleashed a mass of hardcore, iron-pumping supplement salesmen on an unsuspecting public.
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Wonderful conversation between Arielle Angel and Torah scholar Lexie Botzum on Aaron Bushnell and the meaning of sacrifice in the face of the ineffable horrors in Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/sacrifice-chev…

“What environment has produced the hasbarists behind these images, the creative-class ghouls who manufacture consent in millennial pink? Do they really think this material is persuasive?” On victory content and the “Pintrests from hell”. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-i…

Our latest pod from Makdisi Street with eminent historian Rashid Khalidi. We discussed Khalidi's journey to becoming an historian, his mentor Albert Hourani's advocacy then silence on Palestine after the Nakba, colonial Zionism learning from its British imperial patron, the

Jewish anti-zionism is older than the State of 'Israel' and to compare us to Spanish Jews who converted to Catholicism at the threat of being burned alive is an OUTRAGEOUS SLUR

British newspaper columnist often reach a level of absurdity and detachment from reality that even David Brooks would envy

“What environment has produced the hasbarists behind these images, the creative-class ghouls who manufacture consent in millennial pink? Do they really think this material is persuasive?” On victory content and the “Pintrests from hell”. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-i…

NEW Know Your Enemy! We talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, ZERO AT THE BONE: FIFTY ENTRIES AGAINST DESPAIR—a totally unique KYE conversation about love, faith, art, reality, poetry, God, ritual, and much more
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This will be great

'a capacity for surplus is built into the human animal. For both good and ill, we’re continually in excess of ourselves. Culture is reckoned into our nature.' lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

“As they became more autonomous, police started looking less like agents of the state and more like a gang or racket”. Good piece explaining the crude repression on US campuses. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

'“For me,” he wrote in his 2006 memoir Prisoners, “the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns.”' jewishcurrents.org/jeffrey-goldbe…

Ivan Krastev and I offer some thoughts herein on democracy and its uncertain future(s): foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/27/dem…