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Why are humans the way we are? Here's an excerpt from a new article I wrote for @LawLiberty magazine explaining the riddle of human nature. open.substack.com/pub/jonathanle…
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Jonathan Leaf
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Jonathan Leaf
@WriterJonLeaf
Playwright, Novelist. Wrote THE PRIMATE MYTH, revolutionary book Publishers Weekly calls "Smart, provocative reconsideration of humanity's evolutionary history"
Katılım Temmuz 2013
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The point here is that this is something one can now hear on Lebanese TV for the first time. This is hatred for Hezbollah. This is a good thing for Lebanon’s future.
Habeeb Habeeb@habeebhabeeb
Deputy Camille Chamoun congratulates the "Israeli army on its humanity": "The only army I've seen in my life that gives notice to the area it's going to bomb and asks for the evacuation of civilians." You should listen to him arguing with the host. The dialogue in Lebanon has changed completely for the better.
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It’s starting to look like this hunch was correct and that the IRGC, in a desperate attempt to set the region on fire and rally jihadists behind them, is trying to blow up the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. This cluster munition flew directly over Al-Aqsa and landed just 200 meters away. This shell would have destroyed the domes. This seems to be their plan. It is the only possibile reason they are repeatedly targeting the Old City of Jerusalem. There are no military targets there, and most of the population is Muslim.
Saul Sadka@Saul_Sadka
This map of Jerusalem shows a black rectangle marking the Temple Mount, the site of the Dome of the Rock. The red dots indicate the approximate locations of Iranian missile impacts in Israel’s capital over the past two weeks. Could the IRGC actually be trying to hit Al Aqsa in some deranged Hail Mary attempt to frame Israel for damaging it?
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@HannahGraceLong @EggerDC An often boring and pretentious writer who offered readers cardboard women and stupid men living in a solipsistic world.
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@EggerDC I did like The Road and I'm glad I finished it, but Rufo's description of how he feels about Cormac McCarthy after having given up on Blood Meridian is exactly how *I* feel about him, having given up on Blood Meridian. It's crazy to insist everyone love McCarthy like he's Dickens
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I love Cormac McCarthy but I also feel like everybody clowning on this post just has a different axe to grind with Rufo, because "just not in the mood to get pounded by unrelenting nihilism for 350 pages" is a perfectly respectable reason to go read something else
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@ericmetaxas To me, the way to think of him is an aged actress who can't get roles anymore. So she shows up in a dress that's not a dress, essentially naked, at awards shows, desperate for attention.
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What Tucker has said about my Luther book ALONE tells me he is outrageously intellectually sloppy -- perhaps willfully so. Who can explain it? And for him to go against Trump SO VICIOUSLY and wildly is pure self-destruction. nypost.com/2026/03/19/opi…
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@CathyYoung63 This is consistent with @TuckerCarlson's move to the Left. Mosley always publicly identified himself as a Leftist. Incidentally, if you bother to listen to Father Coughlin's speeches, you'll notice that he was much more Left than Right as well.
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Surprising exactly no one who's been watching Tucker Carlson in recent years
Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV)@TheMilkBarTV
🚨 Tucker Carlson disgustingly defends 1930s British fascist Oswald Mosley - who was so aligned with the Nazis that he married at Joseph Goebbels’ house in Berlin, with Adolf Hitler as a guest - even calling him “patriotic.” Carlson claimed Mosley’s “only crime was being the opposition” to Churchill, and that this is why he was arrested during World War II. To be clear: Mosley was a full-blown fascist. He received financial support from Mussolini, maintained close ties to Nazi Germany, and led the British Union of Fascists’ Blackshirts - a paramilitary-style group inspired by Mussolini’s movement, known for violence and for targeting Jewish communities. Mosley had previously served as a Member of Parliament from 1918 to 1931, initially as a Conservative and later as a Labour MP. However, after founding the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and embracing fascism, he was never again electorally viable or close to holding office. He was detained in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B because the British government considered him a security risk with sympathies toward enemy powers - not because he was a credible political opponent. For Carlson to portray Mosley - an outspoken, Hitler-admiring fascist - as a war hero (which Tucker exaggerates), and to claim he was persecuted purely for political reasons, is deeply disturbing. The question has to be asked: does Tucker Carlson despise Churchill so much that he’s willing to defend a Nazi-aligned fascist like Mosley - or does he genuinely believe a Nazi-aligned fascist like Mosley was a patriot? Feat. @SimonWhistler
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@ymenken @Concreteisland2 There's lots of research on this. Ashkenazic Jews have Middle Eastern descent. It seems this is more patrilineal than matrilineal, but, yes, we have Middle Eastern descent. More interesting is that many Palestinians have Jewish ancestry. Why? They were the original inhabitants.
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@Concreteisland2 Oh yes, another person goysplaining Judaism to avoid giving Jews self-determination, while claiming to be a decent person.
Your racist delusions are noted.
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You know it’s interesting that most Jews are not from the Levant. This pretence of being a “people” is also bullshit.
It’s actually quite pathetic that they deny their heritage which is MIDDLE and North Eastern European. Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans and Lithuanians.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken@ymenken
You write this because you are a racist, filled with hate against Jews. Behold the founding of Tel Aviv on empty sand dunes, displacing no one. Dizengoff, who has a central square named after him, hoped the city would be a model of modern Jewish-Arab peace. Now do Jerusalem, which means something in only one language: Hebrew. It means City of Peace. When you claim these places rightly belong to someone else, QED you hate Jews, history, and the Bible.
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@arash_tehran I read several of them. They're excellent. I learned a lot of history. Maybe Khamenei learned that it's OK to marry much younger girls. (Will Durant was 28 when he married his co-writer, Ariel, who was 15 and his former high school student.)
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This quote is from the American historian Will Durant.
Fun fact (as shown in my upcoming book): Netanyahu and Khamenei both grew up reading Will Durant (who was and is widely popular in Iran, his STORY OF CIVILIZATION treated as a must-read classic in Persian translation)
Clash Report@clashreport
Netanyahu: It is not enough to be moral. It is not enough to be just. "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. If you are strong enough, ruthless enough, and powerful enough, evil will overcome good."
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Tucker Carlson, in his last six episodes, has said the Israel controls the Trump administration.
Tucker’s son literally works for the administration. Does this mean that Tucker’s own family works for Israel?
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@EVKontorovich The Palestinian people she celebrates have been doing a great job ridding Gaza and the West Bank of Christians. Has @CarriePrejean1 missed that point?
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Its funny that those criticizing Christian Zionism as a recent heresy just want to replace it with Christian Islamist Palestinianism.
Carrie Prejean Boller@CarriePrejean1
Met with some amazing Palestinian’s this morning. Our work has just begun. Let us continue to pray for a free Palestine and free America from Christian Zionism. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
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I've noticed that there are real generational divides when it comes to how Americans think about Iran, and I must be honest here: whatever my feelings about the larger war, one of my most Boomer-coded opinions is that I would like to see every one of these guys taken out.
Javed Hassan@javedhassan
Ali Larijani’s successor, Hossein Dehghan, holds a PhD in Management. He was one of the students who occupied the US embassy in Tehran. He also commanded the IRGC forces in Lebanon and was among the orchestrators of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The look on his face says it all.
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@RabbiPoupko Looks like she had a nose job. Did she make sure her plastic surgeon wasn't Jewish? (BTW, most West Bank Palestinian Muslims have some Jewish or Christian ancestry. They seem to be partly descended from recent converts. So much for the claims that the area has long been Muslim.)
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Palestinian woman from Gaza took a DNA test and discovered she has Jewish DNA.
See how she reacts.
Having studied Holocaust history and history of Germany during World War II I say with full confidence: German society was far less Antisemitic and obsessed with genetics than the Nazis of Gaza.
You cannot walk 5 minutes through a street in Gaza without being murdered for being Jewish.
There is no such way.
We have heard this from hostages who tried to run away and from the fact that there are absolutely zero Jews living in Gaza.
You can oppose Israel's war in Gaza all you want; there is no escaping how viciously and violently anti-semitic Gaza is.
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Most of what's driving Catholic Integralism and Christian Nationalism is unrelated to doctrinal pretexts. It's a distorted resurgence of TRIBALISM, which in moderate doses is healthy --which whites and Christians have been told is forbidden to them. @ericmetaxas @WilliamWolfe
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Yes, because Jews were famously beloved before 1948.
noah kulwin@nkulw
Contemporary antisemitism in the US is mostly due to the actions of the state of Israel. Hatred of Jews wouldn’t be the problem it is had we not let Israel slap the Star of David on the flag of a nation that ethnically cleansed 750K ppl at the moment of its birth
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@NYJetsTFMedia You want to make the team as bad as possible?
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@RobGeorge There are two writers of popular songs who stand head and shoulders above all the others: Richard Rodgers and Paul McCartney. I met Quincy Jones once at a benefit, and we spoke. He was a minute, self-infatuated creep. BTW, he was also mocking of MJ, accusing him of plagiarism.
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Q has a bit overstatement here. But, OTOH, ask just about anyone what the worst track on Thriller is and you will get almost universal consensus that it’s the McCartney duet, “The Girl Is Mine”. So, maybe Q has a point?
🎸 Rock History 🎸@historyrock_
Quincy Jones on The Beatles
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Iran and "Monty Python and The Holy Grail": How To Think About Our War With Iran open.substack.com/pub/jonathanle…
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@Connor_J_Hughes Have you seen him play? He's completely mediocre. Penn State was better after he got hurt.
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I love the idea of the #Jets taking Allar
Zach Seyko@zach_seyko
Sideline dot from Penn State QB Drew Allar to Kyron Hudson with the nice toe tap.
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@DrEliDavid This was only possible because so many Iranians hate their government.
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How good is Israel's intelligence?
The regime's former president Ahmadinejad: “Iran's Secret Service had established a unit to target Mossad agents within Iran. However, the head of this unit turned out to be a Mossad operative himself, along with 20 other agents.” 🤣
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Esmail Khatib, the regime's Minister of Intelligence, in a recent interview: “Our greatest achievement is arresting all Mossad agents in Iran who were responsible for eliminations here.” 👇
Today he was eliminated 🤣
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@RheaKarys But he will a write a book claiming that the Earl of Essex was the real Shakespeare (as Sobran did)?
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"Carlson is sometimes compared to Father Charles Coughlin, the demagogic radio priest of the 1930s. But Zengerle thinks Carlson more closely resembles Joseph Sobran, William F. Buckley’s protégé at National Review, who gradually became consumed by his hatred for, first, Israel and then Jews generally. In 1993, Buckley fired Sobran because, as Buckley delicately phrased it, “readers of some of his work could reasonably conclude that he was anti-Semitic.” Sobran spent his final years self-publishing an odious little newsletter and hanging around with the disgraced historian and Holocaust denier David Irving. Not long thereafter, Carlson claimed to have spotted Sobran sitting alone in a suburban Denny’s, talking to himself since no one else would listen.
It’s ironic that Carlson eventually wound up taking much the same ideological turn."
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