The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Israel vs Palestine Who's yer genocider... WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN I’ve been preoccupied the last six days with deer hunting. The weather has been cool but mild, making for spending time in the woods very pleasurable - and there is always something bracing about being in the woods hunting a big mammal. I have been mostly off-line in that time, checking in with substack occasionally, but I have not had the band-width to read much. When I have not been sitting in a deer stand I have been in the trailer playing the guitar, trying to figure out how to sing along (I am coming up on a year with the guitar. I have not been keeping up with monthly updates. There will be an update about that soon.) Israel vs Palestine. I wrote the title of this a few days before I went to deer camp, but couldn’t get past the title until I got back from camp. I hear I am supposed to take sides. But that is like when I hear people talk about choosing the lesser of two evils in regards the presidential electio...

  All of a Sudden RFK Jr. Is Totally on Board With Censorship — And Admits He Flew on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ BEN BARTEE I didn’t want to have to write this article. The older I get, the truer the adage “if you live long enough, your heroes always disappoint you” becomes. RFK Jr., to be clear, was never a hero of mine — I don’t have many of those and very few are politicians — but he was a rare one whom I respected. Talking to a friend of mine a few months back, when RFK Jr. was still running as a Democrat, about the value of his dissident candidacy, he broached the topic of RFK Jr.’s peculiar statements of unconditional political support for Israel, as if he were running for Prime Minister of a Middle Eastern ethnostate rather than the United States of America. What was always most peculiar about his sycophantic position on Israel was its stark juxtaposition against his otherwise non-interventionist foreign policy. My answer at the time was to shrug my shoulders: “It’s not a de...