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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
I enjoyed your piece on Tariq Ramadan, but I do have one quibble. On p. 185, you criticise his non-literal approach to Qur’anic interpretation on the grounds that it contradicts a literal reading of the Qur’an. I do not see how it can be …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Yes, West Orange, This Is Your Business by Those “Drowned Out” Zionists | Policy of Truth
[…] those who are perceived as violating the IHRA definition of “anti-Semitism,” which is de facto employed even in jurisdictions where it has not formally been enacted into […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Those “Drowned Out” Zionists
Joshua Leifer’s “Conflictedly Connected” Liberal Zionist Center The well-regarded left Zionist writer Joshua Leifer has a much fawned-over piece in Ha’aretz that’s been adopted in some quarters as the expression of profound wisdom. In it he argues that there’s a “conflictedly connected” Zionist quasi-left “majority” that’s been “drowned out” by the extremist voices of the…
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(Policy of Truth) Questions for Princeton Council (1)
Public Comments and “Disruptions” My name is Irfan Khawaja. I’m a resident of Princeton. I have a question for the Council, to which I request a forthright answer. There’s a video now in the public domain which shows Councilwoman Fraga at the New Jersey League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City, disclosing that this Council…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Literally, nobody wants to give pluggers the time of day
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth, 12/6/25 I was going to make some comment about how Toby is confusing Sunny’s ability to…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked at how the equipment which defined the hoplite – hoplite (ὁπλίτης), after all, means ‘equipped man’) – and how it weighs in on…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) One-panel Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Heathcliff, 12/5/25 I really enjoy today’s Heathcliff for the way it manages to remain legible despite its one-panel…
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(xkcd.com) Chessboard Alignment
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) Top of the Charts: our most popular work in 2025
A look back at the most popular charts, articles, data insights, and more from Our World in Data in 2025.
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