July 18, 2019 By Jonathan M. Feldman Donald Trump’s formula for success is to combine “refractions of truth” with lies. The dogmatic left only says that he “lies.” That is too obvious for comment, but some fetishize this fact. That’s #sad. What is a “refraction of truth”? It is a discourse that looks like the truth,…
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September 21, 2019, Updated November 1, 2019 By Jonathan M. Feldman I don’t have time for a detailed analysis, but the answer is simply the following (many of these refer to the right as well, only they have more power thus using their techniques are not sufficient, plus the right does other stuff the left…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman In the last year, or even months, I have begun to notice that many students are unable to use the semi colon properly in my university classes. It’s a small step that demonstrates that the Swedish education system is failing. Here is how this failure works and teaches us valuable lessons.…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman In a recent interview Noam Chomsky has argued that what antifa does “is often wrong in principle – like blocking talks – and [the movement] is generally self-destructive.” He continued, “when confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it’s the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman June 7, 2017 @KyngStyle [Tweet, May 26, 2017] If u think #ExposeEvergreen is only about bret weinstein or 1 email, u dont have a clue. Thus u should stop telling POC how 2 feel about it @willmcwill2 [Tweet, May 30, 2017] Replying to @KyngStyle No one is telling POC how to…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman The Problem of Decentralization as Scarcity Every few weeks, when I study The New York Times, I read about another police shooting of some innocent citizen–killed for no reason. It gives me a feeling of nausea. That is the emotional side of the problem. There is also a cognitive side and…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman February 5, 2016, Edited February 7, 2016 The Police Museum in Stockholm currently has an exhibition about hate crimes in Sweden. In this short post, I want to review some of the statistics about such crimes and make proposals about how to fight this menace. The review of hate crimes I…
By Jon Rynn November 13, 2016 The Core Problem: Trump Plays the Employment Card Donald Trump offered a solution to the problem of not enough good jobs, and Hillary Clinton did not. That is the core of what happened. Democrats need to offer a better solution than Trump, and then they will take the Presidency…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman “…having got into the university, English studies had within twenty years converted itself into a fairly normal academic course, marginalizing those members of itself who were sustaining the original project. Because by this time what it was doing within the institution was largely reproducing itself, which all academic institutions tend to…
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March 13, 2016, Revised March 14, 2016. By Jonathan Michael Feldman A New York Times editorial published on March 12, 2016 faults Sanders for claiming that a political revolution is either desirable or operational. They write: “revolutions are typically bottom-up, not top-down events.” They also note: “there are not enough elected office holders in Congress…
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