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A beautiful post! This phrase in particular, unsurprisingly, caught my eye: “the lambent glow of the Jersey sky at twilight, the ghost-like apparition of fading sunlight on a sycamore tree, the haunted weirdness of a night-time walk through the s…

It’s ironic, considering the lessons of the holocaust. LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, that was my point. The initial rebellion got hijacked by people with a different agenda. (Not for the first time. Not for the last time.) To quote myself: “The American founding went through (at least) three ph…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. And an intifada is an uprising–a “shaking off,” not a war. There’s a big difference between driving the Israelis out of, say, Jenin and declaring war against Israel. Whence it is plain that shaking of…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I think the war was avoidable, and the cause itself mostly wasn’t worth fighting a war over, except insofar as violence was required to retaliate against British or Hessian aggression when things got to that point. (…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Art is neither an efficient nor a formal cause of a nation, whether identified by someone with one or the other type of cause or not.” Um … yes, right? Not what I was asking about though. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. “Art is not a cause that produces a nation as effect”: Art is neither an efficient nor a formal cause of a nation, whether identified by someone with one or the other type of cause or not. LikeLike

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