I know I’ve already written about the Kristof article and the report on the sexual crimes of Gazans on 10/7. But I want to highlight this article by Guy Goldstein, because it offers a great deal of relevant historical background … Continue reading →
Every aspect of this story is so terrible that it’s hard to face. I tried to deal with it yesterday in a perfunctory manner by putting it in a roundup post. But I find that simply won’t work. It’s too … Continue reading →
It was early in Trump’s first term that I noticed people talking about killing Trump. These were people I knew and had known for five decades or more. I’d never talked about politics before with these people, and I hadn’t … Continue reading →
You may have read that Tucker Carlson recently criticized Dietrich Bonhoeffer in an odd sort of way. Here’s the clip, so you can understand what it’s about: I then came across this – which takes it a bit further, shall … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” draws our attention to an interview with a former Antifa member. Please see this comment and the following two: this and this. The link to the interview is here. I haven’t watched it, but huxley’s comments give a … Continue reading →
When I was very young – in my early teens – I was alone, flipping around the TV dial late one night, and came across the Ingmar Bergman movie The Virgin Spring. It’s not for young people. I didn’t know … Continue reading →
A while back I was looking up one of my favorite films, The Lives of Others, and I came across this quote at Wiki: …Maxim Gorky [said] that Lenin’s favorite piece of music was Beethoven’s Appassionata. Gorky recounted a discussion … Continue reading →
The nihilism and evil expressed by those who celebrated Luigi Mangione’s murder of United Health executive Brian Thompson has been chilling. A rock was overturned and some very disturbing things came crawling out. At first it seemed as though the … Continue reading →
Israel remembers: Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning as a two-minute siren sounded nationwide at 10 a.m., marking Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah). … “We bow our heads in memory of the victims,” Netanyahu said during the ceremony. … Continue reading →
Here’s the way the left’s game is played. It’s not just about the Trump verdict – for example, they have used the same technique in connection with accepting the results of the 2020 election. But it is very much in … Continue reading →
For most of my blogging career, I’ve had the category “evil” on my right sidebar. As I write this, there are only 118 entries there. Ordinarily, I’ve kept the designation for things like the Holocaust or terrible crimes rather than … Continue reading →
As we expected. But that doesn’t make it any easier. I keep thinking in dramatic terms, such as: We have crossed the Rubicon. Or, this country is finished; it was nice while it lasted. Then again, I tend to be … Continue reading →