The moral confusion on too many campuses after the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis fits a familiar pattern. The acceptability of the speech depends on the speaker. Individuals from oppressed groups are given leeway to target oppressor groups through disruptions and threats. This victimology allows Palestinians and their supporters (the oppressed) to target, intimidate, and harass Jews (the oppressors).
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
~ George Santayana
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Ever since time began, it’s been moving ever forward without a moment’s rest. And one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
~ Haruki Murakami
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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The church that Joseph Smith set about building was almost achingly American. He held up the Constitution as a quasi-canonical work of providence. He published a new sacred text, the Book of Mormon, that centered on Jesus visiting the ancient Americas. He even taught that God had brought about the American Revolution so that his Church could be restored in a free country—thus linking Mormonism’s success to that of the American experiment. And yet, almost as soon as Smith started attracting converts, they were derided as un-American.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
~ Che Guevara
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Much of the monotony in higher education is a result of the accreditation process. Accreditation should protect students from snake-oil salesmen, but unfortunately it has become its own racket. Existing schools try to lock out potential competitors. Timidity, ideological homogeneity, and red tape are all structurally encouraged by the accreditation processes.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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