Understanding the extent of the threat posed by Bibi requires a broad historical perspective.
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The emptiness of words, and our shared resignation to meaning manipulation, is no small matter.
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.
The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
The language of self-censorship removes the question from the moral realm in which it properly belongs.
Dostoevsky is too Christian for a secular age and too secular for Christendom.
Kissinger the scholar studied power. Kissinger the statesman acquired power, guarded it, and wielded it.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.