A former colleague of mine liked to say that there are certain ideas that vanish in the presence of thought. Among those ideas is settler colonialism — or rather, the invidious, hypocritical and historically illiterate way in which it is often denounced in anti-Israel polemics and protests.
~ Brett Stephens via The New York Times
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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media
by Benjamin J. Robertson, Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson
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In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Lee J. Jussim — the American academic who leads the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University — was born on this day — December 2, 1955 — in New York City.
He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan.
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Campaigns are always run aspirationally, but elections are referendums. For so many Americans, the stultifying small-bore, rules-bound persnicketiness of the Democratic Party became a huge turnoff. People don’t want to feel that they are being told what they can or cannot say. They’re sick of a culture of walking on eggshells. The proof is right there in the election results—and what’s a presidential election, really, if not a quadrennial performance review of an entire nation?
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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