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  A Revolution, not a Recalibration (That's What we Want) The pack of wolves that devoured Gaza are trying to lull us to sleep, but we must be adamant: institutions and norms that have betrayed humanity must not be allowed to survive the Gaza Holocaust Alon Mizrahi I am not, and never have been, a man of institutions and establishments. The combination of architecture and authority has always given me an actual fear of death; whenever I faced such a combination, since my first day in school, I had to run away or engage very lightly, always with an eye on the nearest exit. When I wrote my first book (dedicated to the subject of freedom) in the politically useless language of Hebrew, much of it was about the danger establishments posed to personal, philosophical, and political liberty. Granted, I grew up and spent my life in the deeply conflicted and now notoriously deranged Israel, where establishments are actually tools of merciless colonization, but anti-establishmentarianism is n...

  A Wolf by the Ears: Or Why the Left Can't Moderate The Patronage–Client Trap John Slaughter Definitions up front: By “Left,” I mean today’s progressive coalition clustered around the Democratic Party and the administrative class. By “dominant culture,” I mean the historic high-status bloc that set a nation’s public norms (in the U.S., White Christian Historically Protestant America). And by “Bioleninism,” I mean Spandrell’s idea that regimes recruit marginal or low-status groups with promises of power and protection, using their resentment to upend the old hierarchy/status quo. A coalition that survives by perpetual grievance must either mint new enemies or pay ever-rising rents to its clients.  — the Patronage–Client Trap The Left cannot tone down its rhetoric. It cannot moderate its positions. The Left is, by nature, a revolutionary force, and a revolutionary force needs an enemy. Every nation has a high-status ethnic or religious group that sets the public norm. That grou...