Hamas or Israeli Values

 Historian Victor Davis Hanson on Hating Israeli Fatigue. An excerpt:

The tunnels’ entries and exits were located, by design, beneath hospitals, schools, and mosques. That choice was itself a damning indictment: Hamas expected Israel to be far more careful to avoid collateral damage to Gazan civilians than Hamas itself, which deliberately put them in the line of fire to save its own fighters.

Hamas’s logic was clear: the Israelis may spare us because they value Gazan lives more than we terrorists do, who use them as human shields.

Wow

 

A Key Question

"If there is a violation of policies or regulations or an infraction of simply sound management, is there a mechanism or office in place to catch it?"

You know the usual answer: "No. Nope. Not a chance. People may know something is wrong. They may mutter about it, but unless there is a direct reason for them to correct it, they will look the other way."

That is not a minor problem. It harms productivity and erodes trust and morale.

Christmas Film

 

Matt Calkins

A sports columnist for the Seattle Times resigns after 11 years on the job.

Unfortunately, it is not difficult to imagine the reason.

The "We are Unworthy" Culture

Spiked: Brendan O'Neill on the Maoist lunacy of the Jason Arday cult. 

An excerpt:

He chokes up as he whips himself for the moral error of having very mildly criticised the prof before his death. Reading from a prepared script, like some terrified soul at a 1930s showtrial, he bows and scrapes in performative sorrow for having spoken ‘glibly, frivolously and callously’ of the now beatified professor. That I am a man ‘capable of great callousness’ is now ‘permanently on the page’, he says. I will be tarred for life by my Arday apostasy, he softly sobs – it’s a moral scar ‘I can’t escape’, and that ‘is right, it’s a necessity, to ensure I never make such grave and irresponsible errors of judgement again’.

Judgment

He's sooo correct.

I eagerly await Nicholas Bate's new book on judgment.

And, of course, his next novel.

The Warning Signs Britain Ignored

 

User Harm: Meta's Internal Research

 What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

Compiled by Bennett Sippel, Nikolaus Greb, Emma Park, Zach Rausch, and Jonathan Haidt at the Tech and Society Lab at NYU Stern.

This report should get a lot of scrutiny.

And you don't need to be a Luddite to have questions.

[Photo by Rasheed Kemy at Unsplash]

Engrave Them on Marble

 

Cultural Offering has the three laws of politics and they are true.

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