Just found out that James Edwards and I (@tooedit) have been “permanently suspended” from Twitter. This is the message I got: Your account is permanently suspended After careful review, we determined your account broke the Twitter Rules. Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can’t Tweet, Retweet, or Like content. You won’t […]
The ZMan wrote an interesting blog on the conflict between Cofnas and me. My comment: I completely agree that Cofnas is a sophist who cares nothing for the truth and keeps making the same arguments while ignoring my counterarguments. But re group selection: My perspective is cultural group selection which is entirely in the mainstream […]
The new Israeli government is by far the most radically right in its history—and that’s saying a lot. As a result, there have been a number of protests against Israel and Zionism both in Israel and on American college campuses recently. These are likely to increase in number and intensity because of the new government […]
I am now involved in yet another Twitter war with @nathancofnas. He wrote another diatribe against me in an academic journal that won’t let me reply. One of the threads started with Cofnas claiming I was an ethnic activist (see Twitter feed here). I responded as follows, somewhat edited: As I said many times, I […]
Writing for the traditionally neocon-friendly Claremont Institute, Christopher Caldwell (Summer, 2022) describes the unintended consequences of the Ukraine war—consequences that are indeed playing out now. Caldwell starts out with Prof. John Mearsheimer’s view on the causes of the war: [2014] was a hinge year. Ukrainian diplomats had been negotiating an “association agreement” with the European […]
If you watch Fox News, you see lots of ads soliciting money for Jews in Ukraine from gullible Christian Zionists. This is based on a Mondoweiss article on a film on Christian Zionism. Here’s the trailer, with folks like Yael Eckstein, John Hagee, Trump admin luminaries and more. “In a classroom where children have collected their loose […]
