Month: November 2006

Know your political self

Donald Hagen, who blogs at Rhymes with Right, took the time to prepare a lengthy satirical quiz, looking at the probable political attitudes of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and communists. Although the quiz isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, I definitely fall on the conservative/libertarian scale (or would, if I

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Brilliant essay about media, anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism

At the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy

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Israel and freedom

I posted the other day about an identity politics problem in Israel: an American Palestinian showed up in Israel for the gay pride parade, only to find himself and his friends on the receiving end of a violent beating from Muslim religious authorities. Surprisingly, the gay American Palestinian was surprised.

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