https://adamkhan.net en adam@engaging.net Copyright 2025 2025-02-04T06:01:00+00:00 The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7 https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2024/10/the-failed-concepts-that-brought-israel-to-october-7/ The idea that a Palestinian living in Palestinian territory under a Palestinian government is somehow a refugee from Palestine is a deadly contrivance, the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). —Shany Mor, The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7 religion 2025-02-04T06:01:00+00:00 How the Ivy League Broke America https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/ Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage. —David Brooks, How the Ivy League Broke America religion 2024-11-15T02:06:00+00:00 If Israel Is Alone, What Do We Do About It? https://www.commentary.org/articles/bret-stephens/israel-jewish-peoples-future/ The path out of loneliness is always a path of action. —Bret Stephens, If Israel Is Alone, What Do We Do About It? religion 2024-10-19T04:49:00+00:00 Modern Wisdom podcast, Episode #833 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fiYVy9DjquxdUozhsW19I Think about MSNBC and CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, AP, etcetera as a set of instructions for how to keep your job. —Eric Weinstein, Modern Wisdom podcast, Episode #833 religion 2024-09-16T05:45:00+00:00 "Magnificent Life" lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQKOjuj0GE Showing interest is a tremendous thing in the human arsenal. —Esa Saarinen, “Magnificent Life” lecture religion 2024-09-09T02:17:00+00:00 Domain-Driven Design Factoring the constraint into its own method allows us to give it an intention-revealing name that makes the constraint explicit in our design. It is now a named thing we can discuss. —Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design religion 2024-09-01T19:41:00+00:00 Domain-Driven Design Versatility, simplicity, and explanatory power come from a model that is truly in tune with the domain. —Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design religion 2024-08-29T19:54:00+00:00 Domain-Driven Design It is important to constrain relationships as much as possible. —Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design religion 2024-07-26T12:22:00+00:00 Israel is the pivot, the axis, the litmus, the trial. —George Gilder religion 2024-07-26T11:55:00+00:00 I used to be an intellectual but now I’m a conservative. —Mike Doran religion 2024-06-22T02:52:00+00:00 Tel Aviv: The Don'ts of Visiting Tel Aviv, Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35F_scpwKLk Anything with eggplant, you can’t lose, ok? —Mark Wolters, Tel Aviv: The Don’ts of Visiting Tel Aviv, Israel religion 2024-05-28T14:13:00+00:00 "Call Me Back", May 16th https://overcast.fm/+l1ZoP6OzA We are at a moment where what’s morally indefensible is becoming socially acceptable. —Tal Becker, “Call Me Back”, May 16th religion 2024-05-17T09:18:00+00:00 "Woke Jihad" in Commentary Magazine https://www.commentary.org/articles/abe-greenwald/woke-jihad/ A revolutionary cannot live on microaggressions alone. —Abe Greenwald, “Woke Jihad” in Commentary Magazine religion 2024-05-17T02:21:00+00:00 "The unbearable sanctimony of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set" https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/the-unbearable-sanctimony-of-the-pro-palestine-set/ We all know that if these tattooed trustafarians who think men can breastfeed went anywhere near Gaza their pronouns would be was / were quicker than you could say ‘Free Palestine!’. —Brendan O’Neill, “The unbearable sanctimony of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set” religion 2024-04-03T14:24:00+00:00 Twilight of the Wonks https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/twilight-wonks-walter-russell-mead One of the principal functions of a modern university is to provide… masses of human material capable of exercising the responsibilities while accepting the limitations of a bureaucratic career. —Walter Russell Mead, Twilight of the Wonks religion 2024-03-27T18:15:00+00:00 Culture is cultural appropriation is culture. —ASK religion 2024-03-22T11:54:00+00:00 Anti-Israel Jews are not a political but a clinical sub-category. —Edward Luttwak religion 2024-03-13T12:24:00+00:00 My impression is that R2-D2 and C-3PO were the Laurel and Hardy, the comedy relief, with one being the superior intellect and dominant personality, pushing around a more innocent friend. —Mark Hamill religion 2024-02-26T20:35:00+00:00 Democracy around the world is America’s spiritual grand strategy. —Robert D. Kaplan religion 2023-11-05T04:31:00+00:00 The Culture of Transgression https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/culture-of-transgression Most of what is called “progressivism” today is really transgressivism. —Michael Lind, The Culture of Transgression religion 2023-08-04T06:41:00+00:00 The Berlusconi I Knew https://unherd.com/2023/06/the-berlusconi-i-knew/ In spite of its beauty, Italy is a country of pessimists. —Edward Luttwak, The Berlusconi I Knew religion 2023-06-16T07:25:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIVfU0xBjA You need a grinder to make life delicious. —James Hoffmanon coffee religion 2022-11-30T09:04:00+00:00 The Arc of a Covenant The American model appeared to demonstrate that capitalism plus democracy led to mass prosperity and deep social stability. —Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant religion 2022-09-27T02:55:00+00:00 The Arc of a Covenant (p. 251) If “the Jews” ran America, immigration would not have been restricted and Israel would likely not exist. —Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant (p. 251) religion 2022-09-25T16:26:00+00:00 What I've Learned from Users http://paulgraham.com/users.html Very ambitious people probably need colleagues more than anyone else, because they’re so starved for them in everyday life. —Paul Graham, What I’ve Learned from Users religion 2022-09-21T21:13:00+00:00 Money: Master the Game The reward is that if you give, even at the times when you think you have very little, you’ll teach your brain that there is more than enough. —Tony Robbins, Money: Master the Game religion 2022-09-05T21:45:00+00:00 Triumph of Davos Man https://americanmind.org/salvo/triumph-of-davos-man/ The second most important country in the Western Alliance is almost detached from it, all by the apparently innocuous and meliorist actions of Germany’s peppiest environmentalists. —Conrad Black, Triumph of Davos Man religion 2022-08-05T20:07:00+00:00 Amusing Ourselves to Death Telegraphy made relevance irrelevant. —Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death religion 2022-08-01T23:09:00+00:00 Amusing Ourselves to Death The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. —Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death religion 2022-08-01T23:08:00+00:00 Amusing Ourselves to Death The act of thinking … is as disconcerting and boring on television as it is on a Las Vegas stage. —Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death religion 2022-08-01T23:07:00+00:00