Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Equivalentism

  • Jewish Disproportionality!

    Not even the Hamas sexual atrocities recounted on the basis of a NYT report by Alex Berenson justify Jewish disproportionality: On Thursday, The New York Times recounted in awful detail the sexual atrocities the men of Gaza committed during Hamas’s October 7 raid into Israel. I know Jeffrey Gettleman, who had the piece’s lead byline. He is…

  • The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet

    I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…

  • A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement

    From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019   Michael Liccione writes,   Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more…

  • Malcolm Pollack on ‘Mass Formation’

    Our old friend Malcolm Pollack has an article in American Greatness entitled "'Mass Formation' is a Two-Headed Coin." Pollack offers the following characterization of mass formation: “Mass formation” . . . is a newish term for an age-old and long-studied phenomenon: the occasional, and usually quite sudden, arising of passionate and sometimes completely irrational fixations…

  • Mona Charen, Bari Weiss, and Political Equivalentism

    Are we engaged in a truth-seeking debate with our political opponents, or are these opponents enemies with whom we are at war? For some time now, I have been heading in the latter direction.   Von Clausewitz held that war is politics pursued by other means. But what could be called the Converse Clausewitz principle holds…