Re: “Judeo-Christian”. One thing that Judaism and Christianity have in common that Islam doesn’t is a long history in the West of practitioners identifying as a follower of a faith, attending to the basic holidays and some rituals (and raising their kids in them) while not necessarily taking the actual theology seriously (sometimes witho…

“On Saturday, after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza. More than 1,300 Israelis were subsequently killed with over one hundred more taken hostage…”

That’s from the letter Coates signed decrying Israel that was sent to The New York Review of Books. His was the first name on the list of signatures.

The letter, written…

“Graduate students in a top-flight psychology program might be vulnerable in certain ways. Academia is cutthroat and brutal and the best jobs are startlingly scarce. But at the end of the day, these are not only adults, but extremely intelligent ones.”

No. Many aren’t.

I’d be genuinely curious to know if after a minute of reflecting on thi…