Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Also relevant: At some point, I’ll dig up my photos of my last drive through the vicinity of Lod, which bears the thinly veiled scars of the 1948 conflict. LikeLike

Decentralization, either of economics or politics, seems to be rarely focused on in political discourse and ideology. Centrality tends to be implicit in the assumptions of most people, whether they be professional economists describing general economic end goals, or politically minded people describing how to craft policy in order to achieve ideal results. In both…

A bunch of articles on the group Torah Nucleus help put the violence in Lod into a useful context, and to some extent clarify the role of the pre-military academy. A bunch of articles for future reference; I’ll follow up on this topic at some poi…

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. Bret Stephens is just a colossal fraud. The argument of this piece turns literally on the following non-sequitur: 1. Some anti-Zionists are anti-Semites. 2. Therefore, anti-Zionism is inherently anti-Semitic. Still hasn&#82…

I’m no journalism scholar, but I’ve always been taught one of the core competencies of journalism is to research things before concluding that something that might be in plain sight doesn’t exist. And certainly before putting together…