Sam Brody

Hi, new followers! I wrote a book back in 2018 about Jewish anarcho-theocracy. You might like it if you are interested in the idea of God’s direct rule without a human intermediary, as devised in Weimar Germany and with application to colonial Palestine. Also if you only know Buber from “I and Thou”

every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"

almost one year in i feel like my analogy between 2024 and 2004 is still mostly holding? bush II got increasingly unpopular while doing authoritarian things on the basis of a false perception that he had a massive mandate (i.e. won for real after previously only fake-winning). wound up disgraced

live your life in such a way that it won’t be considered an insult to your memory to post unedited direct quotes of things you said in public repeatedly

remember when Obama deported Shyne so then he supported Mitt Romney and became a tough-on-crime politician in Belize?

I suspect that neoliberalism hollowed out the institutions necessary to achieve mass mobilization, for socialists and liberals just as much as for fascists. You can't have a Party militia if you can't have a Party

This is I believe one of the slept-on virtues of renewed interest in the Bund. Medem’s concept of the multinational socialist state was unequivocally more realistic and less nationalist than Lenin’s, but somehow the internet is still out there creating new baby Leninists every day

Our society is simply not equipped to deal with “powerful people did things that caused millions to die” as opposed to “powerless people killed one or a few people directly”

Things that Freak Out the Oligarchs for $400, Alex

lol

Religions are not agents and cannot be the subjects of sentences and verbs

In case you were wondering, “is Tucker Carlson really a Nazi? Hunter Biden says he’s a nice guy”

And the king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is one more through whom we can inquire of GOD; but I hate him, because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only misfortune.” - I Kings 22:1

ah, time to update my CV :::scrolls through calendar for the last two years in the hopes of seeing due dates for things so i can remember what i did:::