liberalism

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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What is a Jew?

י״ד באב ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 25 July 2010)

In response to my post on 9 Av, Will S. asked why non-religious Jews choose to remain Jewish by choice: Is it just shared experience, and/or sense of high degree of persecution by outsiders, that inculcates the sense of “we’re a people” in secularist Jews, making them want to live amongst their own rather than [...]

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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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