Gav Jacobson
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A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...
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A small teaser of what I’ve been working on for the last little while.

@equatormag.bsky.social is finally out in the world.

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A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...
equator.org
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ayoub.bsky.social
This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”
So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.
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"Who in the future is going to listen to a Jewish perspective on environmentalism or social justice when the bodies that espouse them did not speak up when thousands of people were being starved to death in the name of Jewish safety and security?"
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The time for equivocation is over - primarily for the sake of Palestinians but also for the well being of Jewish tradition. An immediate end to the war and unrestricted entry of aid to Gaza is the bare minimum we should be calling for.
Ending War and Starvation for the Sake of Judaism - Joseph Finlay
If we care about Judaism and want it to remain element we need to demand an end to the war and for unrestricted aid to be let into Gaza.
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this week's newsletter: trump vs. musk as forum drama maxread.substack.com/p/admin-is-c...
This is, of course, a highly visible political dispute between two of the country’s most powerful men, as well as a highly entertaining reality TV-style feud between two celebrities with a knack for attention-getting stunts. But I want to underline that this is more than just another example of the ongoing and near-complete convergence between “electoral politics” and “television entertainment.” It is also an example of the ongoing convergence between “electoral politics” and “forum drama,” driven by the overwhelming mediation of politics by various message board-like social-media platforms.

In this case, Musk has, consciously or not, stepped into the (astonishingly familiar despite its specificity) role of “overworked forum admin whose offline substance abuse and desperation to be liked by other posters has driven him to madness,” while Trump assumed (a long time ago, if we’re being honest) the stock role of “eccentric but predictable message-board regular whose strange obsessions and unique formal style have turned him into a kind of valued cult Character despite his obvious mental deficiencies.” (I would argue that his decade-plus performance in this role is as important to understanding Trump’s media presence as his status as “reality-TV star”; I would also say the fact that we elected a message-board eccentric to the presidency is both (1) a world-historical tragedy and (2) about what you might expect from a politics structured as a forum.)
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“his thought had a kind of archaic substantiality. He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius”. Raymond Geuss on Alasdair MacIntyre newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).
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‘Referring to Zionism as “machine-gun Judaism,” Zukerman linked the Jewish state to both gangsterism and militarism in a single image’. @blbalthaser.bsky.social on American Jewish dissent from Zionism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
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‘Referring to Zionism as “machine-gun Judaism,” Zukerman linked the Jewish state to both gangsterism and militarism in a single image’. @blbalthaser.bsky.social on American Jewish dissent from Zionism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
www.bostonreview.net
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Indeed. Miéville actually pressed Anderson on this in the Q&A following original lecture and he was pretty evasive (think you can also detect this diagonalist drift in the pages of the NLR).
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Miéville responds to Anderson.
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trillingual.bsky.social
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
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