June 2021

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2021/06/30/gleanings-fall-of-rome-fall-of-the-west/I often need to cut whole sections of an article, either because it’s too long, or it’s a diversion that distracts from the flow of the argument. I will put any coherent segment here for […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2021/06/27/brandeis-faculty-petition-objecting-to-granting-ayaan-hirsi-ali-an-honorary-degree-2014/In composing an article (which I shall post after its publication) that includes a section on the Brandeis controversy about granting Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree, I found that the link I had to […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2021/06/22/50-year-anniversary-of-the-class-of-71-statement/It was supposed to be my 50th graduation anniversary this June. We were asked to write for the yearbook. I just received an email from a classmate who saw my remarks in response to the […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2021/06/18/fisking-scholars-for-palestine/Early on in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, an organization claiming to speak as “scholars” issued a strong statement calling for public commitment. Despite its decidedly unscholarly tone and content, it […]

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2021/06/13/lethal-own-goal-war-journalism-the-fourth-gaza-war-2021/For a Polish translation by Malgorzata Koraszewska, see here. The month of May 2021 has taught us Israelis many unfortunate things, things we hoped were not true (and continue to hope are not true) about […]