The Liberal Condition: Arendtian Musings on Modern Discourse

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Columbia Then and Now, Part III: Beliefs
In the 1960s, protestors wanted to save the university from military influence; today, demonstrators wish weaponize the university for militancy. Their…
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Why I use the Names Judea and Samaria.
"West Bank" was a term invented by Jordan in 1950 to complete the ethnic cleansing of the Jews who lived there contiguously for several millenia.
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Identitarianism vs. Patriotism and the Nation-State: Some Thoughts
Some Unedited Thoughts about "Identity" as the Nullification of the Individual Self in Favor of a Self Viewed as Part of a Collective. Plus, Some…
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Columbia Then and Now, Part I: College in 1968 and the Bravery of Distressed Teens Creating Something from Nothing.
Under fear of the bomb, recruitment to war, and ongoing acts of racial segregation, young American undergrads leapt into the unknown with grassroots…
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The Trojan Horse of Cultural Nostalgia: This is Not the 1960s.
Today's anti-Israel college campuses are nothing like the college protests of the 1960s, so why does the media insist on that framing? How SJP uses…
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"It's Turtles All the Way Up."
How institutions like the ICC that claim to represent human rights may have subverted the purpose of their postwar origins.
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Childbirth, Covid, and Wildfires
A personal account of the chaos of the past couples of months, and looking forward to jumping back on the Substack train now that normalcy has more or…
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The Liberal Condition: Arendtian Musings on Modern Discourse
The Liberal Condition: Arendtian Musings on Modern Discourse
Unveiling the omnipresence of ideology, disentangling from reflexive hatred for "the other side," and trying to create a better language for discussing Judaism and antisemitism. Inspired by Hannah Arendt since 2015.
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