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☆ Campus Radicals and Leftist Groups Have Embraced the Idea of ‘Settler Colonialism’
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
After the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,300 Israelis on Oct. 7, many Americans were indignant to see academic and left-wing organizations issuing statements that excused or implicitly endorsed the massacre. Such sentiments are not surprising, however, to anyone who follows the way Israel and Palestine have long been discussed in those quarters. An idea widely accepted in a small ideological community has now been exposed to the view of the general public, revealing the deep estrangement between them. The idea in this case is “settler colonialism,” a term that appears often in the pro-Hamas statements collected by the Anti-Defamation League. Mondoweiss, an anti-Israel online publication, has called the Hamas attack “part of the Palestinians’ century-long struggle for liberation” from “Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism.”
Persons: Mondoweiss, ” Organizations: Defamation, Democratic Socialists of America, “ Zionist Locations: Israel, Palestine
☆ Campus Radicals and Leftist Groups Have Embraced the Deadly Idea of ‘Settler Colonialism’
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
After the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,300 Israelis on Oct. 7, many Americans were indignant to see academic and left-wing organizations issuing statements that excused or implicitly endorsed the massacre. Such sentiments are not surprising, however, to anyone who follows the way Israel and Palestine have long been discussed in those quarters. An idea widely accepted in a small ideological community has now been exposed to the view of the general public, revealing the deep estrangement between them. The idea in this case is “settler colonialism,” a term that appears often in the pro-Hamas statements collected by the Anti-Defamation League. Mondoweiss, an anti-Israel online publication, has called the Hamas attack “part of the Palestinians’ century-long struggle for liberation” from “Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism.”
Persons: Mondoweiss, ” Organizations: Defamation, Democratic Socialists of America, “ Zionist Locations: Israel, Palestine
☆ What UFOs Say About Our Populist Moment
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Not long before his death in 1996, Carl Sagan said that he had been “captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life” since childhood and that discovering it would be an “absolutely transforming event in human history.” Exactly because the prospect was so alluring, however, Sagan warned that we should be skeptical about believing reports of UFOs or alien encounters. As he put it in the documentary “Cosmos,” “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”—an idea now known as “the Sagan standard.”
Persons: Carl Sagan, Sagan, ”
☆ ‘Maimonides’ Review: The Greatest Jewish Thinker, in Brief
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Adam Kirsch | Alberto Manguel | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Moses Maimonides on a 1953 Israeli stamp. Photo: AlamyThe 12th-century sage regularly described as the greatest Jewish thinker of all time leads a double life for posterity. To this day, students in yeshivas turn to the Rambam’s magnum opus, the comprehensive legal code known as the Mishneh Torah, in navigating the complexities of Jewish law. In this context, the book that matters is the “Guide for the Perplexed,” the philosophical treatise Maimonides wrote in Arabic around the year 1190. The “Guide,” too, speaks the language of Judaism, but the questions it addresses aren’t practical and legal, as in the Mishneh Torah, but speculative and metaphysical.
☆ The Rise and Fall of Respectability
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
When the ledger is drawn up on the tech revolutions of the last thirty years—the internet, smart phones, social media, crypto—the losses are generally outweighed by the gains. It’s hard to deeply regret the disappearance of department stores, CD players and checkbooks when we have Amazon , Spotify and Apple Pay. The decline of respectability as an ideal has been at the center of two tech-world sagas unfolding in recent weeks: the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX and Elon Musk’s tumultuous takeover of Twitter. In this context, the most telling detail in the FTX saga doesn’t have to do with dubious tokens or suspicious accounting. Rather, it involves League of Legends, the massive multiplayer online game that is a favorite of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried .
☆ The Unabomber’s Ideas Aren’t So Marginal Now
  + stars: | 1995-09-19 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Theodore Kaczynski at his arraignment in Helena, Mont., April 1996. Photo: Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty ImagesOn Sept. 19, 1995, readers of the Washington Post opened their newspapers to find a special section entirely devoted to a single, 35,000-word essay. Still more unusual was the way the article had found its way into print. America’s most wanted terrorist, an anonymous individual then known only as the Unabomber, had offered to stop mailing bombs if the paper published his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” At the urging of the FBI, the Post agreed, with the New York Times sharing the cost of printing.
Persons: Theodore Kaczynski, Michael Macor Organizations: San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Industrial Society, FBI, Post, New York Times Locations: Helena, Mont
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