Once upon a time, there was a skinhead.
Then, he became Jewish.
This is not a fairy tale. This is a real story. Read it, and be amazed. I would add commentary, but for the fact that I am utterly lost for words.
Once upon a time, there was a skinhead.
Then, he became Jewish.
This is not a fairy tale. This is a real story. Read it, and be amazed. I would add commentary, but for the fact that I am utterly lost for words.
The argument in bad faith is, of course, something that post-1960s American liberalism has raised to an art form, but it is especially egregious in this case, because it not only defames, trivializes, and insults an ancient and much-abused people and their tradition, but it does so in the service of the most sickening kind of hypocrisy.
It occurs to me that given his reply to Leon Wieseltier, in which Andrew Sullivan accused Wieseltier of not coming out and saying definitively whether he believes that Sullivan is an anti-Semite, a similar critique may be made of me, given that I passed over the question myself, and instead posed questions to Sullivan that weren’t quite answered (whether that is because Sullivan did not see my post, or did see the post and decided not to answer the questions, I cannot say).
Speaking of Andrew Sullivan, he has posted a long reply to Leon Wieseltier, whose article I linked to.
Accusations of anti-Semitism are serious things, so I am not going to make them. But after reading this piece by Leon Wieseltier on Andrew Sullivan, I have some questions which I would love to see the Inspector Javert of Trig Palin’s matrilineal line answer.
They can sneak up on the leadership class of any particular country in very unexpected ways.
TNL Senior Editor Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Wednesday, July 29th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s edition covers the controversy over Goldman Sachs.
It’s always the same old song and dance, isn’t it? Dictator finds country, dictator ravages country, dictator blames the Jews: