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The Palestinians were making political moves and, as had been the case with the Zionists, were also finding a literary voice. They did so most notably in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian born in the western Galilee whose family fled their village of al-Birwa during the War of Independence. Drawing upon both centuries of Arab verse and t

Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Substantive as this book is, it was predicated on a “hook”: that one British writer (George Orwell) with a frightening vision of the future, a vision that many feared would come true, was mostly off-base, while another British writer (Aldous Huxley) with a frightening vision of the future, a vision less well-known and less feared, was scarily on ta

Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

mobilizing against Israel, and other reactionary pursuits, Ivy institutions are pursuing the fancies of a declining intellectual and business elite,

George Gilder • Life After Google

Palestinians gave Israel savage Nazis, third-world barbarians embodying the depraved native in the colonial mind. The Aztec. The Indian. The Zulu. The Arab.

Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message

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Roger Scruton • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1999), James C. Scott details the ways the modern state has run roughshod over local, customary, and undisciplined forms of knowledge in order to rationalize and simplify social, agricultural, and political practices that have profit as their primary motivation. In

Jack Halberstam • The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly. ”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"

self-censorship rather than state censorship represents the most direct threat to the intellectual health of contemporary society.

Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”

— Aldous Huxley