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About 'Mephisto' '"..whenever he’s onstage, he is deemed a lightweight and an artistic fraud. In the words of the theater’s director, he is “basically a trivial creature. Everything about him is phony, from his literary taste to his so-called Communism.” libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

"Monster of the Enlightenment" libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

"For the New Right, Jewishness — as symbolized in and by Israel and Epstein alike — is the embodiment of a threat to the facile fantasy of America as a biologically coherent nation." libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

My friend Diane Mehta has two poems in the current issue of Liberties! Subscribe! libertiesjournal.com

I wrote about One Battle After Another, @kmendoncafilho's The Secret Agent, and the cinematic canon in the age of the heritage american, for @readliberties:

@nichttrinker Noch dankbarer bin ich übrigens für den Hinweis auf libertiesjournal.com. Kannte ich nicht.

Secretaries I am no more than a secretary of the invisible thing
That is dictated to me and a few others.
Secretaries, mutually unknown, we walk the earth
Without much comprehension. libertiesjournal.com/author/yahiala… #poetry @readliberties

@hangingnoodles Thank you, Jag, for reading and sharing. Perhaps, you’ll also appreciate my other spiritual piece @readliberties on Pascal libertiesjournal.com/author/yahiala…

"For the New Right, Jewishness — as symbolized in and by Israel and Epstein alike — is the embodiment of a threat to the facile fantasy of America as a biologically coherent nation."

Wrote about the Best Picture-winning film, also the film that should have won Best Picture:

"At this point in my life, the thing I can least forgive is unforgivingness. I have come to understand what a gigantic moral and spiritual thing forgiveness is." —Literary Critic Leon Wieseltier on Founding Liberties Journal @readliberties youtu.be/aG4MRj5Rh6w?si… @Quillette

Read here: libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

"Russia is overturning the entire postwar orderer... we are failing the test our grandparents passed and are squandering the safety they bequeathed us." libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

Full piece here: libertiesjournal.com/articles/gloir…

If "Progressives" in America increasingly sound indistinguishable to you from the Islamic Republic, you haven't imagined it. Abbas Milani: "Khamenei’s endless enmity toward the US... is inseparable from his view of America.. as a country whose politics and culture are 'controlled by Zionists'.... Another part of [his cultural war] is cultivating, coordinating, and empowering intellectual proxies in Western academia and cultural domains." Professor Jeffrey Sachs: ""The US Congress is owned and operated by the Zionist lobby. That's not an exaggeration. That's just a literal fact."