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Terrorists are not criminals

כ״ט בניסן ה׳תשע״א (Tuesday 3 May 2011)

Terrorists are not criminals in the sense that burglars, drunk drivers, perjurers, rapists and litterers are criminals. Terrorism may incidentally be a crime by its inclusion in the statutes that make it one, though pretty much any single action in the modern state is a crime by that standard. The proper paradigm with which to [...]

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On Religious War

כ״ח בניסן ה׳תשע״א (Monday 2 May 2011)

If two groups of people are fighting, and both groups deny that it is a religious war, it is not a religious war. If two groups of people are fighting, and both groups agree that it is a religious war, it is a religious war. But if two groups of people are fighting, and one [...]

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The Christian Brotherhood (ie, The Muslim Brotherhood)

כ״ד בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 29 January 2011)

Somewhere in the world, in a troubled region, there are riots on the streets and an organization called the Christian Brotherhood is poised to succeed in seizing power as that country’s military dictator eventually flees. The Christian Brotherhood is a potentially frightening organization. Its members have been involved in a lot of political violence over [...]

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Men’s Rights in Israel

י״ז בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 22 January 2011)

The Men’s Rights movement has reached the Knesset. It’s a little weird to me that the Israel world and the MRA world are now overlapping, but I think Israel has been one of the countries with the most vocal Men’s activism in the world, at least in the form of זכויות הגבר במשפחה (Men’s Family [...]

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What is a Reactionary?

ל׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Tuesday 7 December 2010)

What is reaction and what does it mean to be a reactionary? In the past five years or so that I’ve considered myself a reactionary, I’ve described myself that way a bunch of times to a bunch of different people, and the responses I’ve got have never been what I expected. Oddly, the progressives and [...]

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Wikileaks

כ״ט בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Monday 6 December 2010)

I don’t have any strong feelings for or against Wikileaks at all, which feels very weird, because I definitely think I should. Seth Roberts endorsed a New Yorker commenter who argues that honest people support Wikileaks and dishonest people oppose it. This seems particularly disingenuous to me, and I’d add at least one more group [...]

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