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A Good Look at an Old Evil
The title of this column plays off my first book, A Good Look at Evil. There I revisited some of the main philosophical ways of understanding evil before I offered my own view, exhibiting its power to illuminate a wide … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, academic allies, academic ally betrayed, academic anti-semitism, academic friendship, academic friendship betrayed, academic ingratitude, academics celebrate atrocities, an old evil, Anti-feminism, Anti-Semitism and discourteousness, Anti-Semitism and politics, Anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College, Anti-Semitism unprovoked, Athens and Jerusalem, betraying a friendship, Brooklyn College’s History Department, cat’s away the mice will play, celebrating war crimes, civilization’s foundations, defending civilization, defending civilization against Anti-Semitism, discourtesy, evil of Anti-Semitism, global animus, global anti-semitism, horse sense, horse whisperer, Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, moral disintegration, moral downfall, moral free-fall, moral requirement, moral requirement ridiculed, normality and abnormality, Oct 7 and jihad, Oct 8 and academe, perennial anti-semitism, philosophical colleague, philosophical friendship, philosophical friendship betrayed, political hatred of Jews, professional ingratitude, safeguarding Jews in academe, societal breakdown, spiritual implosion, sudden change of character, trivializing Oct 7, understanding evil philosophically, ungallantry, where there’s smoke there’s fire
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End Time
End Time I’ve been reading a voluminous book by historian Richard Landes called Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of Millenial Experience. It’s exhaustive. Whew! With contagious verve and overwhelming scholarly exactitude, the book goes into the many ways in which … Continue reading →
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