Monday, June 30, 2025

What is anti-semitism, an illuminating discussion with a friend

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  Antisemitism, Jew-hatred, is an ugly, disturbing, yet puzzling and resilient social phenomenon, and it takes many forms. It is similar in ...

What is a "just war"?

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  President Trump, excercising authority as the commander in chief, and in consultation with advisors, bombed the nuclear facilities in Iran...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

From my FB page. Today's musing minute

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 T oday’s musing minute *SPOILER ALERT*, IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE TV SERIES “YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS” OR ARE CURRENTLY WATCHING IT, WATCH...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Today’s musing minute - from my FB page. Facing some important inconvenient truths.

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Facing some inconvenient truths. The world is a wonderful and terrifying place, in which the most sublime human virtues and the most unimagi...

Antisemitism as a response to the massacre of Jews

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Today's musing minute - art as woke social philosophy

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  Today’s musing minute Clearly, art is often a vehicle for social philosophy, even propaganda. The extent to which a work appeals to its ...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

From my FB page. Today's musing minute - What does the 2024 election reveal?

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  Between the group of euphoric highs and devastated lows, it is hard to decide who is more arrogant. Arrogant people fly higher and fall ha...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

The Meaning of October 7

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Monday October 7, 2024 was one year since the savage attack and massacre launched by Hamas in Southern Israel. Over 100 of the hostages take...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

From my FB page. On the implications of the existence of Jews who are anti-Israel.

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  Today’s musing minute. We live in anxious times. What starts in academia does not stay isolated in academia. As many who read this feed ha...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Upside down at Harvard

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Today's musing minute.  Some may not know about it, others may remember it. I refer to the firing of Lawrence Summers as president of Ha...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Making sense of the complicated mess in Gaza

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Friday, November 10, 2023

An irreverent discourse on religion

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  An irreverent discourse on religion    #1: The first question is: Is there something beyond our comprehension that relates to the exist...