democracy

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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Israel is a Police State

י׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 21 July 2010)

Israeli propaganda would have you believe that Israel is a liberal western democracy. Though it’s true that Israel is a democracy – much to our detriment – this society is not western, and there is very little about life here that’s liberal. Israeli citizens are required to carry identification and explain who they are and [...]

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Tel Aviv’s Proudest Day

כ״ט בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 11 July 2010)

I’ve lived in Tel Aviv already more than a few years, and I long ago learned to hide what I believe about any issue from the people I meet here. More than half of the girls I’ve dated in Tel Aviv have been draft dodgers, not including the one draft resister I fucked after I [...]

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Jewish Monarchy in Israel

כ״ה בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 7 July 2010)

Will S. asked these questions: I’m Canadian, and an ardent monarchist myself; to me, it ties in with my patriotism, and my faith as a Christian (of the Protestant variety), and my disposition as a Canadian. Monarchy, though, is always at least outwardly religious; whether the Christian monarchs of Europe, or the Islamic kingdoms like [...]

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Where I Am and How I Got Here

ט׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 26 November 2009)

In 2005 I was pretty involved in protesting against the destruction of all the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. I poured all my energy into that struggle and put myself and my safety and security on the line by getting myself arrested and refusing to cooperate with the police in their [...]

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Slate on Ayn Rand

כ״ט במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Monday 16 November 2009)

It’s been many years since I last considered Ayn Rand a major influence in my life (fortunately I had the wisdom even as a teenager not ever to want to be an “Objectivist”), but as a dedicated reader of Slate and as someone who was at least turned on to liberty and to a somewhat [...]

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