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Where Are the Ex-Friends Now?
This is a week when I’ve been thinking about old friends who are, as it happens, ex-friends. Maybe it’s a special category of friendship. I’ve devoted a recent column to David, who was a valued philosophical colleague. Together we shared … Continue reading →
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Tagged a friend’s ghost, a life without distinction, a life without ideality, Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, avoiding victimization, betraying expectations, betraying one’s heritage, beyond charisma, beyond charm, coming to manhood, communist party line, debts of honor, disappointing expectations, endangering one’s son, ex-friends, exploiting a friendship, fake spirituality, first love, forgetting one’s debts, funeral notice, gentleman who cheats at cards, honor and dishonor, idealizing and manipulation, intellectual trust, intellectual trustworthiness, life as a true story, mediocre philosophizing, message from beyond, misusing one’s charm, obit notices, old friends, painful self-repair, philosopher’s obit, philosophical adventures, philosophical colleague, philosophical exploration, philosophical fashions, philosophical ghost, playing the victim, politics of experience, pulling rank, reckless driving, reckless endangerment, regretting nothing, repairing one’s life, saving grace from the eternal feminine, selling one’s birthright, social predation, spoiling a life, spoiling one’s story, stern ghost, the eternal feminine, the eternal feminine leads us above, the Nothing nothings, thought experiment, timeline traduced, trading honor for security, trading integrity for security, unfettered thinking, uninspired paintings, utopian illusions, wasting one’s talent, women as victims, women idealized
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October 7 Reflections
As of tonight, tomorrow will be October 7. Many who will write about the events of that day are more versed than I am in the phenomenology of Jew-hatred. Some are in the thick of the current efforts by my … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic anti-semitism, anti-semitism, antisemitism and personal frustration, antisemitism and sibling rivalry, antisemitism as frustration over one’s life story, becoming an antisemite, beliefs about afterlife, Cain and Abel, cheering October 7, cruelty of Hamas, decoding anti-Jewish hatred, defending civilization, end of history, escaping history, facing Jewish responsibilities, facing one’s personal obstacles, failing to live one’s own story, fashionable bigotry, fashions in bigotry, fashions in victimhood, fighting anti-semitism, God of history, Holocaust in a past life, identifying with Hamas, Jewish memory, Jews as preserving the God of history, Jews as preserving the timeline, Jews representing historical continuity, life after death, life as a true story, life on the timeline, October 7, past life in Nazi Germany, past life in the 1930’s, past-life memory, pseudo-science, puzzle of anti-semitism, reincarnation, spoiling other people’s stories, supersessionism, the Jewish narrative, vision of global anti-semitism, Western Civilization
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