Molly Finkle

This is the reason why the most important conflict in the West is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between liberals and progressives. Progressives are hiding behind liberal ideas. And in order to live out the promises of liberalism—equality, freedom—progressives are willing to destroy our world for the sake of building a new one with abs... See more

If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.

Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn’t necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The J

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This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.”

on my mind: modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more. but to go down this path, we have to really…

@BriannaWu He basically followed the same arc as Mohammed. At first he argued that Jews hadn’t converted because they were mistreated, so he urged Christians to treat them better. Then he concluded they wouldn’t convert even if they were treated well - and turned on them with a vengeance.…