NYTimes.com: Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War

Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War

Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-gaza-war.html?smid=em-share

** NYTimes.com: The Democrats Are Their Own Worst Enemies

The Democrats Are Their Own Worst Enemies

John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira say the Democratic Party is failing in matters of culture and in matters of class.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/opinion/democrats-elite-judis-teixeira.html?smid=em-share

NYTimes: How Democrats Lost Voters With a ‘Compensate Losers’ Strategy

How Democrats Lost Voters With a ‘Compensate Losers’ Strategy www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/democratic-party-inequality-biden.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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NYTimes: Republicans Have Chosen Nihilism

Republicans Have Chosen Nihilism www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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NYTimes.com: ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics

‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics

The speaker needs to consult his Bible more carefully.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/maga-mike-johnson-christianity.html?smid=em-share

******** NYTimes.com: Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism rj

Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism

A coalition of catastrophists is trying to make the next generation of Republicans believe that the country is on the verge of collapse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/opinion/sunday/conservative-intellectuals-republicans.html?smid=em-share

NYTimes.com: New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education

New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education

The differences in how rich and poor children are educated start very early.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html?smid=em-share

****** NYTimes: The Laws of Campus Culture War

The Laws of Campus Culture War www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/opinion/columnists/campus-speech-culture-war.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

“I’ve long appreciated the pseudonymous writer Scott Alexander’s description of liberalism: “People talk about ‘liberalism’ as if it’s just another word for capitalism or libertarianism or vague center-left-Democratic Clintonism,” he wrote on his Slate Star Codex blog. “Liberalism is none of these things. Liberalism is a technology for preventing civil war.”

He’s exactly correct. And as the Supreme Court has repeatedly observed, our nation’s educational system — and especially its college campuses — is the place where we learn liberalism. It’s the place where we are supposed to practice pluralism. Our system of government was built to accommodate conflict but only as long as that conflict is channeled through a Constitution that protects our liberty from the government and empowers that government to protect its citizens from one another.

Students are entitled to be free. They are entitled to be safe. But enduring hard words and hearing dreadful ideas isn’t just an inescapable element of pluralism; it’s also the price of peace itself. Break that system, and the conflagrations abroad will have violent echoes here at home. Trust that system, and we can manage the conflicts that tear other nations apart.”