Definite Articles 2
interesting articles for interesting people
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/do-you-actually-hate-jews
“The question, especially these days, is: Given the sharp contrasts with its neighbors, why is Israel so repeatedly singled out as if it is the only (and worst) bad actor in that region, whether in the media, on X, in the United Nations, and everywhere else for that matter? And why lately do these attacks seem to be coming from people, including former military people, who should—no, who definitely—know better?”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/john-wayne-emotional-rescue-west-patriotism
“Violence is not enough to destroy a civilization. Every civilization dies of indifference to the peculiar values on which it is founded.”
“Patriotism is also going through difficult times in the United States…. Attacks against the American state come regularly now from both the left and the right, united by a common hatred of their own country, and apparently heedless of the corrosive effects of this kind of feeling. When citizens are emptied of their identity, they lose their sense of reality and risk losing their freedom as well.”
But I heard on a podcast yesterday (TFP) that patriotism is making a comeback among the youth. Still this article makes a lot of valid points, I think.
https://quillette.com/2024/05/20/the-war-in-gaza-no-end-in-sight-benny-morris-palestine-rafah/
An in-depth survey of where the war stands by Benny Morris
Seven Tactics Wikipedia Editors Used to Spread Anti-Israel Bias Since Oct. 7: Examining Wikipedia content and how the site operates matters — it is the world’s go-to site for information.
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/hostage-deals-and-israels-criminal-justice-system/
The difficult calculus of active releases and freeing terrorists
This is a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Philip Ball as part of the Science of Meaning and the Science of Culture series of the Marginalia Review of Books. McGilchrist wrote the book The Emperor and the Messenger, about left- and right-brain difference. Ball has written on Biology and I am currently halfway through his very readable book on quantum physics. The title is taken from a small book by Erwin Schrödinger.