“If someday the United States and China end up in a military conflict, America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines will find themselves fighting against their own technology.”
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“Politics may be an important aspect of our lives, but as a source of personal meaning it is disastrous.”—Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds (2019)
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“What matters above everything is the racial and other identity of the speaker. Their identity can either condemn them or get them off.”
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Once you know Billie Holiday’s backstory, you understand why lady sang the blues. Saddest. Shit. Ever.
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Leila Marshy’s The Philistine (2018) is a delightful meditation on being, becoming, and belonging set in a Cairo you’re sure to fall in love with.
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The story’s true, but the narrative’s partisan bullshit.
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Removing a well-established institution from your society is like having a seemingly superfluous part of your body surgically removed.
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“In February 2018 Laurie Penny could be found on Twitter saying, ‘“Men are trash” is a phrase I adore because it implies waste.’”—Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds (2019)
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“I didn’t sign up for this” is a beautiful phrase which signals that delightful moment when someone decides to take responsibility for their actions and do the right thing.
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A selection from Tony Judt’s Postwar: Europe since 1945 (2005).
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A selection from Etgar Keret’s remarkably wacky collection of extra-short short stories.
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“The distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.”
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A selection from Etgar Keret’s remarkably wacky collection of extra-short short stories.
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Few things are more dehumanizing than being treated like the representative of a category.
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If I don’t seem to be getting it, it could be because I’m just not that smart; but it’s probably because you’re just not very good at explaining yourself.
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Many on the American left seem to believe that Palestinians are de facto “black”, Israelis are de facto “white”, and Israel is the Middle East’s answer to Apartheid-era South Africa.
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God told dreamy Joseph to prepare Egypt for seven years of famine. Could we survive that long? I doubt it.
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If time travelers from today were to visit North America in the late Pleistocene, they would see great dire wolves, sabertooth cats, beavers the size of armchairs, turtles that weighed almost as much as cars, and sloths able to reach tree branches twenty feet high.
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Progressive bullies keep showing us who they really are. We need to listen to them. We need to believe them the first time. And we need to beware of them.
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“The Japanese built a nuclear power plant right down the hill from the stone tablets that their ancestors put in the ground warning, ‘Don’t build anything below here.’”
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