Jack Mirkinson

New York

Senior editor @thenation / eic @discourse_blog. Bluesky: https://t.co/0wYidsHwMI jmirkinson @ thenation dot com / jack @ discourseblog dot com

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Articles

You're Either With Greta Thunberg or Lindsey Graham

5 days ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

Discourse Blog has long held the view that activist and all-around real one Greta Thunberg is awesome. Discourse Blog has also long held the view that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is a piece of human refuse, floating along, scaring young children, making plants wither and die merely by glancing at them, and generally infecting the world with the stench of his evil.
Call It a Genocide, Bernie

1 week ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

No one who looks honestly at what is happening in Gaza can really deny anymore that Israel is committing genocide. The world’s leading human rights organizations have come to this conclusion. So have the world’s leading scholars of genocide. Now, as Israel’s campaign of starvation, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing deepens further, even some prominent Israelis are beginning to admit the truth.
What Bird Has the Most Three-Day Weekend Vibes?

2 weeks ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

We all know that birds and three-day weekends are two of life’s greatest things. But today, as we head into Memorial Day, we at the Bird of the Week Department have a question for you: which bird is most representative of the glory that is the three-day weekend? We’re looking for a bird that encapsulates the specific beauty of the three-day weekend: the promise of relaxation and fun, the pleasure of not having to work, the feeling that justice is being done.
Suggestion: Please Leave Congress If You're Actively Dying

2 weeks ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

Here’s something I thought would be obvious but seems to need saying: if you are actively dying, maybe Congress is not the place for you. I know, I know, it’s not groundbreaking stuff—except it apparently is if you’re a member of the Democratic Party, an organization stuffed to the gills with people clinging to the spoils of office even as they are getting pulled forcibly into the afterlife.
This Is What Evil Looks Like

2 weeks ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing some domestic political difficulties right now. No, no, not because he’s carrying out yet another escalation of the genocide in Gaza and killing hundreds and hundreds of Palestinians every day. Don’t be silly. That’s a campaign photo-op for Netanyahu. His people love that.
Logan Rozos Is a Real One

3 weeks ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

On Wednesday, John Beckman, a spokesperson for New York University, issued the following statement:NYU strongly denounces the choice by a student at the Gallatin School’s graduation today—one of over 20 school graduation ceremonies across our campus—to misuse his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views. He lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.
Sorry We're Still Mad About the Genocide

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘺𝘢𝘬𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴To give the itsy-bitsiest, tiniest bit of sympathy to establishment Dems, this is a very new and unfamiliar state of being: Israel isn't reflexively bowing to US political winds, Israel is the aggressor, and the Dem base has stopped whole-heartedly supporting Israel.
Sorry We're Still Mad About the Genocide

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

The genocide in Gaza continues unabated. Israel has cut off all humanitarian aid for months. People are starving. The world is largely indifferent. Which means it’s a perfect time for another story about the people to blame for where we find ourselves: activists who won’t curb their annoying habit of being mad about all of this stuff.
Nobody Is More Pathetic Than These Billionaire Losers

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

The guy in this picture is Marc Andreessen. Andreessen is one of the most influential venture capitalists in the world, but that’s not what you’re thinking about when you look at this picture. You know and I know that you’re thinking one thing and one thing only: “Jesus Christ nobody has ever looked like an egg more than this person.”It’s OK! People are constantly thinking and talking about this, and have been for a long time. 12 years apart, same thought. You can go back even further though.
Did Meeting JD Vance Kill the Pope?

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88, made history in several ways. He was the first pontiff to hail from Latin America. He was the first Jesuit pope. He was the first pope to declare St. Gregory of Narek a Doctor of the Church. He was the first pope to say that queer people were maybe not complete demons. He cared about Palestine. All good stuff.