For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways

Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion

There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...

Painful work but so necessary, thank you David

I’m increasingly convinced that this could be a game-changing moment for 2024. If a serious right-wing candidate emerges during this crisis, they might actually win the popular vote by galvanizing the wave of popular support that emerged post-9/11. Biden might end up being the new John Kerry.

Your perspective is undeniably a clear-eyed view of the Hamas attack and the reaction to it, yet nonexistent in the mainstream discourse. I can’t believe how quickly we turned to the 9/11 playbook despite decades of Likud doing everything possible to prevent a lasting peace and alienating the US.

Good piece.

Thanks. You make excellent points, and I'm ashamed to have to say, you're brave for making them. I'm in for $3.02/month!

thanks for writing this.

One of the ironies to calling this "Israel's 9/11" is that we were told after 9/11 we should respond to "terror" like Israel does, with the implication that Israel's policy of brutal revenge works.

Thank you for writing this, really nice to have someone express exactly what's on my mind like that

You are a very fine writer, sir.

“permission not to care.” A haunting, elegant articulation of what may be the ultimate (probably penultimate) stage of a descent into radical thoughtlessness, or if you’re theologically salty, evil. A further “stage” could be: consigning to oblivion that the failure to care ever needed permission.