When I first became very active online, the search engine Google was rather new. I noticed quite early that, when I would be doing a search for content on Israel or Jews, the first page or two of results were … Continue reading →
Our humane and friendly neighbor to the north: [In 2015] Canada’s highest court determined that assisted suicide would be ethical only “with respect to voluntary adults who are competent, informed, grievously and irremediably ill,” and only when it would be … Continue reading →
I keep noticing references to “an eye for an eye,” but I’ve also noticed a lot of misunderstanding around the phrase. It was actually meant not literally but as a corrective to previous much harsher codes of justice. See this. … Continue reading →
Mob violence has been part of human behavior for a long long time, and that hasn’t changed in any fundamental way. Anyone who studies the reality of human history rather than some sanitized or woke version is aware of that. … Continue reading →
It may seem puzzling. Instead of increasing sympathy for the Israelis among Palestinian supporters in the West, the October 7 massacre seems to have done the opposite: increased the hatred, and not just for Israelis but for Jews. There are … Continue reading →
…Time’s wingéd chariot hurrying near… As I get older, it increasingly seems to me that the world divides itself into two kinds of people. There are those who look back and say, “I’ve had a good life and wouldn’t change … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post. I think it’s always timely, and certainly is timely now. I came across a reference to Anne’s famous statement recently in an essay on the Hamas attack of October 7, and … Continue reading →
That’s a headline I never thought I’d be writing. But when the news that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies first came out, many many people tried to claim it was untrue. Apparently it has now been verified by many reporters … Continue reading →
I’ve been covering the Hamas massacre since it happened, and it touches on something very deep that goes back to childhood terrors. When I see or hear the suffering it is sickening. I wish it were fiction, but it’s not. … Continue reading →
They’re back. Or actually, they never left: As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” asks an excellent question, and then answers it: I understand it’s not a priority in conservative circles to wonder WTF happened to the Left. But, as an ex-leftist, I do. Exactly how did the Left swivel away from … Continue reading →
I often see remarks such as that of commenter “Wendy Brown,” who writes (the first sentence in the comment is a quote from another comment in the thread): “If Trump is the nominee, a large segment of the GOP and … Continue reading →