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Nov 8, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Paul Berman
Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn Claud Cockburn was a British journalist of the 1930s and later—dapper, high-society, and left-wing—whose historic role was, by going about his own business, to reveal to George Orwell something peculiar and troubling about human nature.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
letraslibres.com | Paul Berman |Elios Mendieta |Manuel Maldonado |León Krauze
Entre las mil corrientes en la agitación universitaria de estos últimos meses, la pequeña onda que captó mi atención fue un escándalo claramente menor en Harvard en febrero, que no causó ni una sola ventana rota, disturbio estudiantil o irrupción masiva de agentes del Estado. Fue un escándalo alrededor de una caricatura.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
arcmag.org | Paul Berman
One of the oddest features of the university pro-Palestine protests since the October 7 massacre a year ago has been the habit of attaching to the Palestinian cause any number of seemingly unrelated causes. Adam Kirsch, the literary critic and poet, has brought out a book just now discussing the political ideas that have animated the protests, and he cites a curious example of this phenomenon from November 2023.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
contractingbusiness.com | Paul Berman
Running an unsuccessful HVAC business is easy: Just trudge along with no clear vision for the future, no core values to guide your organization, and no business strategy to guide decisions, investments, or tactics. Very few HVAC contractors go into business intending to fail, yet it has been shown that three of every 10 will be unsuccessful by their second year. The primary reason for this failure is not having a clearly defined and well executed business strategy.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | David Cohen |Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman
In the department of non-news, the recent revelation that Bruce Springsteen has moved from E Street to Easy Street and joined the billionaire ranks of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney deserves a tick. Yes, the working-class hero from New Jersey may now have the disposable cash to buy a highway fit for broken heroes, but his reviews have long been worth a billion bucks as well. This year marks the anniversary of the first and most influential of those notices.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young
Communism as a ruling doctrine is a relatively recent phenomenon in historical terms, dating back just over a century—or, if we count parties bearing the name, such as the Communist League of Marx and Engels (c. 1847–48), about 175 years. But the idea of material or social equality lying at the heart of Communist theory traces back deep into antiquity, and it is worth examining the different strands of thought that have informed and inspired modern Communists. In The Republic (c.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins
Few thinkers have had a global impact comparable to Sigmund Freud’s. His theories continue to influence mental health care, as well as the arts, literature, philosophy, and nearly every subject in the humanities and social sciences. Despite this impact, his work is a tough sell. He’s tied to bizarre theories about childhood sexuality, attacks on religion, judgmental and crazy psychoanalysts, and grandiose claims that haven’t stood the test of time.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins |Greg Koabel
I wrote this essay in the spring of 2024, and it ran in the summer issue of Liberties, the American print quarterly. By the time the issue came out, though, which was in July, the difficult topic that my essay addressed had swollen into something still more difficult. This was the wave of virulent anti-Zionism that had arisen in the American universities and in the art-and-literary world and a few other places in the immediate aftermath of the 7 October 2023 massacre.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
law360.com | Paul Berman
By Paul Berman (July 5, 2024, 1:14 PM EDT) -- In Trump v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has remade the constitutional system of separation of powers, elevating the president to imperial status and paving the way for nearly absolute presidential immunity from all potential criminal prosecutions, state or federal, regarding any acts committed while in office. ... Law360 is on it, so you are, too.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins
Five years ago, I gave a TEDx Talk in Toronto titled, Political Correctness Works for No One. I didn’t promote it too heavily at the time—not only because I felt the points I offered weren’t exactly groundbreaking, but also because I was status-conscious of the fact that TEDx is the junior-varsity spin-off of the more illustrious TED Talk franchise.
