Dwight MacDonald on the New Yorker: "It can be read aloud in mixed company without calling a blush to the cheek of the most virtuous banker.’

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You've almost certainly read this already. You almost certainly agree with it already. But there must be someone you know who still needs to hear it--who does not believe that what Israel is committing in Gaza is indeed, very exactly, genocide. thefrontierpost.com/80-years-after…

Orwell alert: Shipman's letter said Columbia "has not, and will not, recognize or meet with... “Columbia University Apartheid Divest" Why? "Organizations that promote violence ... are not welcome on our campuses." So supporters of the bombing of Gaza don't "promote violence"?

Does anyone believe that Paramount's decision to cancel Colbert is really for "purely financial reasons"? Anyone?

Leslie Moonves, with whom I went to high school, was cancelled after he tried to wrest control of Paramount from Shari Redstone. Would he have done what Paramount has: pay $16 million to Trump to settle a case that it could have won, then fire Stephen Colbert? Just wondering.

Psari after the Germans burned it in July 1944. I can still see some blackened stones in our walls.

The defense of academic freedom, which Columbia ignored when questioned in Congress about pro-Palestine protesters, was the principle it upheld, in 2015, when it rejected calls for the removal of Dr. Oz on the grounds of his “disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine.”

Doesn't need any commentary. substack.com/@abbasabdulmal…

Twitter doesn't seem interested in evidence that the government narrative about campus antisemitism is false. How could that be? columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/0…

I have worried, lately, that my new atrocity book, though its subject is so topical, doesn't do enough with genocide, especially the genocide in Gaza. These kind genocide scholars decided to rescue it, bringing out its more useful side. youtube.com/watch?v=y11eTj…

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James Schamus asked Columbia, when do I get my antisemitism money? The question is getting some attention. chronicle.com/article/columb…

youtu.be/WUwsgMua-2w?fe… Even non-Francophones will like the Israeli therapy session.

Bonnie Honig on writing Gaza protest letters, and a very intriguing film. politicsslashletters.org/reviews/the-kn…

A readable book on generative AI, in a very interesting newish journal. criticalai.org/2025/08/04/sne…

A generous but smart review of "Criticism and Politics." dropbox.com/scl/fi/5kh5cou…

An early DSA adopter tells his story. politicsslashletters.org/features/first…

Signing statements and petitions always seems pitifully inadequate. But it's better than staying silent, day after day, while the unspeakable happens, day after day. versobooks.com/blogs/news/dis…

A podcast I did the other day with Norman Finkelstein. youtube.com/watch?v=3WzYTz…