Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)

It is an extra (((special))) episode on Uncertain Things as Ruth Wisse, senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and author of Jews and Power, hosts Adaam for Friday afternoon cookies and Talmud. The two discussed the wave of resentment that threatens to consume American culture (or Annihilism, as Adaam stubbornly calls it), the problem (or lack thereof) of inequality, the Jewish rejection of Weakness Worship, and what it means to stand witness to evil.

On the (((agenda))):

-Neocons love assimilation [1:30]

-Accents are genocide [9:00]

-The idea that disparity is evil is evil [17:00]

-Charity and dignity (and pity) [27:00]

-Gratitude, resentment, and feminism [34:00]

-What’s up with American Jews… plus American liberalism… plus standing witness to evil [48:00]

Also:

-Adaam and Yuval Levin talk about the nature of liberalism, beauty and conservatism

-Howard Jacobson at Tablet Magazine on the death of a tailor

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