“What a dreary compromise is life!” exclaimed the hero of Norman Mailer’s abortive magnum opus, The Man Who Studied Yoga.1 And so life is a dreary compromise for most of us, which is why we go to films to see people who do all the things we don’t do in real life, like punch out…
Tag: anti-semitism
Many Jewish University of Pennsylvania alumni are angry, and most of the time they have the right to be.
I will confess up front that this is a “yes but” story, but I would like to emphasize that the “yes” is just as strong as the “but”, if not stronger. A story in the New York Times by Stephanie Saul, Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University? gives us the backstory: the decision…
Passive-aggressive hypocrisy hath made its masterpiece: The Volokh Conspiracy’s conspiracy against the rule of law
The Volokh Conspiracy is a website that describes itself as “Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent”. They forgot to add “Frequently Lukidist”. The eponymous founder of said conspiracy is Eugene Volokh. To call Gene’s c.v. “glittering” is probably the understatement of the decade. A bona fide mathematical genius, he…
Well, this is depressing. Hilaire Belloc’s 1922 anti-Semitic screed “The Jews” is available from Amazon in 59 different formats and editions.
I don’t know how Amazon decided I might be interested in Hilaire Belloc’s pretentious anti-Semitic tome, unless they are counting all my keystrokes (they aren’t, are they?) and found out I looked him up on Wikipedia recently—because I was quoting him, favorably, for his critique of the ultimate justification for western imperialism—“For we have got/The…
Obama Administration randomly shoots itself in the foot, three times
If a rabidly anti-Semitic terrorist attacks a kosher deli, knowing it’s a kosher deli, and starts killing the people inside because he hopes they’re Jews, well, those are random acts of terrorism, according to President Obama, along with Jen Psaki of the State Department, and Josh Earnest of the White House, all of whom apparently want us to believe…
The new, improved Doonesberry! Now with Anti-Semitism added!
Okay, I don’t think that Gary Trudeau thinks of himself as an anti-Semite, but the May 31 Doonesberry slides into some awfully unattractive territory. Boopsie’s daughter Samantha starts quizzing Rev. Sloan on the old Protestant riff that the God of the Old Testament is a God of Wrath, while the God of the New Testament…