Democrats have been challenging Republicans to rise above political expediency and take their oaths to defend the Constitution seriously. The cautious Democrats need to do the same. Pelosi wants to protect vulnerable Democrats in her caucus from political jeopardy. But the United States is under greater jeopardy than…

Avoiding Mike Dukakis Look (aka Snoopy Syndrome.)

Yes please. (And I had had my license for five years by 1975, so I understand that 50 mph in a real open car with your butt 8" above the asphalt is faster than 70 mph enclosed in an open Miata.)

KB - Black Coffee - FTMFW!

You seem intent on demonstrating that you are a cliche. I guess you must have won, because I didn’t realize that literary discussion was a blood-sport.

You are very tall on the internet.

Oh, I’m wrong to expect intellectually competent criticism because Bari Weiss is David Duke?

So, codpiece grilles are the thing now? Or is that just in Bavaria?

I haven’t come to Splinter to make fun of anyone. I generally agree with the world view reflected here. I even enjoy being snarky. But I could not let the self-satisfied piling-on of Mr. Mirkinson’s post go unchallenged. Sarcasm and snark are entertaining and glib, but they are not substitutes for serious thought or…

I agree that both of those positions are unsupportable. Half (almost) of Israelis oppose the Likud’s expansive program, and Palestinians actually have rights [Period]

Your comparison of poison to an opinion outside your own closed orthodoxy says a lot about the intellectual state of what might be characterized as the “alt-left.” Ms. Weiss may be wrong. She may be imaging a pattern by tortuously connecting random rhetorical dots. She may be ludicrously paranoid. But simply…

I cannot discern what point you are making, or what sort of criticism you are criticizing. I know this sounds demeaning and pedantic, but please organize your thoughts before vomiting them all over me and expecting me to find meaning in them.

Well played. But as my icon and screen name illustrate, I prefer two.

There is no more New York sound than the repeated “WHOA!”s.

“Wait, wait, . . I know this!”

I believe that statement is diametrically incorrect, sir.

Did Mr. Mirkinson read the book he’s criticizing? Is this simply an admitted ad hominem attack? Inquiry and free expression, even inquiry that might be embarrassing, and criticism that might offend, are legitimate intellectual undertakings. “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to…

.”Judging from everything Weiss has written on the topic; the reviews which suggest that the book contains her usual levels of racism and disingenuousness, and that it frames leftist opposition to Israel—including and especially from Jews—as a threat on par with the rise of neo-Nazism in America; and the noxious…

Thank you for your explanation. 

I’m not sure I can agree. “Flat hierarchy” tends to de-value experience. For example: is there a correlation between the popularity of term limits in legislatures and the surge of politics dominated by party loyalty instead of public interest? I suspect there is. And that erodes the offices and institutions involved.…