Neoliberal Feudalism

Jews represent around 2 percent of the American population and ardent Zionists surely far less than half of that figure. And I know people who qualify as ardent Zionists, or at least people who want to see Israel sustained in more or less its current geopolitical state, who under no circumstances want the United States Constitution upended in the form of criminalizing its most crucial component, the right to freedom of expression.

This is a light and whimsical post about one of ancient Greece’s most interesting characters, Diogenes of Sinope (412/404 BC – 323 BC), who listened to his inner voice despite hardship and public pressure. His decision to live ascetically and shamelessly free from social constraints continues to have lasting appeal. An aphorism is a concise, terse, or laconic expression of a general truth or principle.