Friday, December 22, 2023

TGIF: Beware Elitists in Populist Clothing

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We're led to believe that today's political struggles are largely a contest between populists and elitists. But something besides li...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Appearance on the Scott Horton Show

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Scott Horton and I talked about issues related to the Israel-Palestine conflict on his show recently. You can listen here .
Friday, December 15, 2023

TGIF: Ahad Ha'Am's Prophetic Warning about Political Zionism

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Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha'Am (Hebrew for one of the people ), was a proponent of...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Anti-Zionism Is NOT Anti-Semitism

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  Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro says what needs to be said -- and he said it two years ago, before the clowns in Congress (Thomas Massey and a few ot...
Friday, December 08, 2023

TGIF: Inspiration for the Nakba?

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The unspeakable violence that plagues Israel and Palestine daily relates in part to the assertion of an ancient, ancestral, and even divinel...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Kissinger, RIP?

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I published my take on Henry Kissinger, who died this week at age 100, in 2014, when presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary C...

TGIF: Jewish Dissent on the Balfour Declaration

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In the fateful year 1917 the British cabinet had one Jewish member: Edwin Montagu. He was also the only cabinet member to oppose the Balfour...
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Friday, November 24, 2023

TGIF: Arms Sales and Democracy

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The U.S. government's role as the world's premier arms donor and dealer is now under renewed scrutiny. I can't imagine why. But ...
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Friday, November 17, 2023

TGIF: Cooperation versus Bigotry

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We who value individualism, freedom, and social cooperation as essential to flourishing should be distressed by the hostile bigotry that has...
Friday, November 10, 2023

TGIF: When History Didn't Begin

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I agree with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. I've never written those words before. But on Oct 24, Guterres said to the UN Secur...
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Friday, November 03, 2023

TGIF: The Glorious Bourgeois Peace Movement

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Those of us whose pro-peace/antiwar principles are of the bourgeois classical-liberal variety need reminding now and again that we have a gl...
Friday, October 27, 2023

TGIF: Don't Police the World

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"We" -- to be precise, U.S. policymakers and their quasi-private-sector, tax-nourished enablers-beneficiaries--  must not police t...
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Friday, October 20, 2023

TGIF: Extend Tolerance to Commerce

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Perhaps you've noticed that we live in intolerant times. Many people claim to be endangered by the mere spoken or written expression of ...
Friday, October 13, 2023

TGIF: Why Is Government Stuff Called "Public"?

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Government facilities and services -- which are actually disservices overall -- are called "public" while services that are effici...
Friday, October 06, 2023

TGIF: A Market for Law?

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Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

TGIF: Limited Government's Bait and Switch

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In a fundamental respect, libertarian minarchism (minimal, or limited, government) and market anarchism (or anarcho-capitalism) have somethi...