Sublime

Still, I wish leftist activists more often acknowledged that there’s a tradition of cultural Zionism, championed in the mid-twentieth century by figures like Martin Buber and Judah Magnes, which wanted a thriving Jewish culture in Palestine-Israel but opposed a Jewish state. And I wish leftist activists had more empathy for the historical trauma

He says everyone remembers the last war, and no one is mad enough to go through that again.

to be a Jew is to cry out, even when silence would be safer, easier, and more convenient.

On May 1, 1933, Heidegger joined the Nazi Party.

Our obsession with growth creates two problems. The first is that we have convinced ourselves that growth is the normal state and that it is reasonable to expect it to go on and on. That patently ridiculous idea—exactly as hopeful and deluded as the search for a perpetual motion machine—causes us to stop searching for other possibilities. While

Others might say that progress is a myth because Nazism, the Holocaust, and genocidal communism all occurred less than a century ago—and after the Enlightenment. This would be reasonable if the argument were that everything that came after the Enlightenment was liberal. In fact, these phenomena show what happens when totalitarianism is allowed to