Recent content by Zevi

Yeah, I know someone at Harvard (went to school with him) who's likewise from what I'm told is a fairly influential family and he's been a Paul supporter for some time now. We'll see.

Hah, I remember thinking exactly this a while back. Cato the Younger might be another good parallel.

People sometimes forget how much of an impact peer pressure has. He could say the exact same thing in two debates but if the audience reaction is different for whatever reason, then on some level yours will be too.

doronster: Personally I'm ambivalent about the Israel/Palestine issue, since I don't think there is any possible solution for now, nor would any alternate historical solution have provided long-term stability there either. There are some similarities between Gaza and a concentration camp...

It comes from an equivocation between the standard meaning of concentration camp and the somewhat euphemistic sense in which it was used by the Nazis (technically places like Auschwitz were primarily extermination camps, not concentration camps). It might seem a pedantic difference, but it's...