This is an unintentionally precise analogy: Black Lives Matter was a widespread, popular movement that was deliberately demobilized by centrist Democrats and then repressed by Trump in a reactionary backlash. In other words, what a liberal calls “ephemeral cultural opposition.”

Trying to figure out what this guy thinks the trolley problem is.

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I wrote about the obligation to rebuke and the Marxist critique of moralism. jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...

For Jewish Currents, I wrote a short Pesah reflection about selling out, the slide from counter-culture to counter-revolution, and what happens after the Exodus. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/s...

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Featuring essays from @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social, @mhughesrob.bsky.social, Liana Wertman, @motownrabbi.bsky.social, Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Amit Gvaryahu, and Maya Rosen, and illustrations by Yavni Bar-Yam.

I and others were asked by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Haggadah recommendations; here was my slightly curmudgeonly answer.

“on both the left and the right”

For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, I write about Brecht, Vivian Gornick, the menorah, the labor theory of value, and commodity fetishism: jewishcurrents.org/parshah/febr...

Delightful little story about visiting the Holy Land from the anti-Zionist Hasidic Rebbe of Munkacz.