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Stop bookmarking and start arguing (opens the original)
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My smartphone is a quiet digital graveyard: It contains hundreds of bookmarked essays, screenshots of columns I promised myself I would read and PDFs, all filed away in cloud storage. I will never open them again. I suspect my device looks much like yours. We hoard ideas under the modern illusion that capturing data is the same as retaining it. But saving a link is not remembering an idea. In our rush toward frictionless digital tools, we have mistaken data storage for human memory. In doing so,
The Committee to Protect Journalists has a definition problem (opens the original)
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When the Committee to Protect Journalists board met this summer to weigh its definition of who counts as a journalist, the vote overwhelmingly ended up 17-1 in favor of retaining the current definition, with the Fox News representative dissenting. Jacob Weisberg, chairman of CPJ’s board of directors, then rejected claims that CPJ planned to narrow its definition to exclude Palestinian and Lebanese media workers killed in the ongoing wars with Israel. Understand what that vote was and what it was
America forgot how to disagree. The Shabbat table remembers ... (opens the original)
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In my new book, Free Expression Under Fire, I make an argument I’ve spent years defending: that free expression doesn’t just live in the courtroom or the ivory towers where I trained. My case is that the First Amendment’s 45 words have durable meaning when ordinary people take them out of litigation briefs and law reviews and into “kitchen table conversations, coffee shop debates and civic discussions that shape our communities.” I stand by that. But I left something out. This month, as Carnegie
Mamdani’s religion test is a fraud, and the numbers prove it (opens the original)
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants New Yorkers to believe that he’s a man of principle. Asked whether he supports Israel as a Jewish state, the mayor struck a lofty pose: He “can’t support” any nation “that privileges one religion over another, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.” Equality, he intoned, should be “enshrined in every country in the world.” Nice line for a fundraiser. It falls apart the second you open a calculator. Start with Mamdani’s basic lie: Despite h
‘Judeo-Christian values’ is a slogan, not a history (opens the original)
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The phrase “Judeo-Christian values” is meant to sound like bedrock. It is invoked as shorthand for the moral foundations of Western civilization and the American republic. But the phrase is not ancient. It is modern, political and far less innocent than its defenders suggest. That does not make the underlying intuition expressed by the phrase false. Jewish ideas helped shape the West. Ethical monotheism, the supremacy of law over rulers, the dignity of the individual and the prophetic critique o
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