every generation......it returns

The beginning of relative decline is c. 1870, absolute decline starts 1919-1923.

'jim crow goes worldwide' is as good a summary as any as the shape of contemporary great power politics. fascism is dead; communism is dead; the only alternative to liberal democracy left--is illiberal democracy.

The central political question of 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 is whether or not there is a legitimate justification for a state to indefinitely deny 50% of its population political rights or self-determination.

Everything else is commentary.

The fact that a lot of Jewish communal leadership is having a very public nervous breakdown strikes me as sort of suboptimal.

Absolutely Classic Singal, where the headline is LYING LIAR LIES!! and then the actual content is a debate over whether 'small' and 'tiny' are synonymous.

Next step is to show up in your mentions and start arguing about the definition of 'synonym'.

The masculine urge to put together a playlist of outlaw songs.

I agree, you shouldn't vote Joe Biden for President of the University of Southern California.

I cannot emphasize enough that what the prestige media commentariat wants is not a free marketplace of ideas but a curated debating salon.

Israel is a far-away and scary and complicated issue, you can taste the palpable relief at being able to return to their comfort zone of 'free speech means it should be illegal to criticize me or be rude to my friends'.