For today’s episode, we’re thrilled to share the most recent episode of our friend Sam Harris’s podcast, Making Sense.
Moral confusion is plaguing this moment like never before. It’s everywhere: from college campuses to congress. Sam, better than almost anyone, is able to speak to that confusion, with facts, nuance and moral clarity. Importantly, he doesn’t just visit this topic with the narrow lens of this particular war between Hamas and Israel, but with a bird’s eye view of history. But according to Sam, it’s not the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that matters so much right now, but rather the history—and enduring global problem—of jihadism. And that’s what this episode is about.
The episode, aptly titled, The Bright Line Between Good and Evil, is sobering, illuminating and well worth your time. Please listen.
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Isn't this the guy who claimed the Trump was such an existential threat to democracy that the media was justified in lies, deceptions and omissions? It seems to me that that kind of behavior by the media is exactly the thing that undermines democracy. He also had some pretty "interesting" ideas about vaccine mandates. Why would I take him seriously now?
I say without gloating, welcome to the Republican Party. This is what Trump said when he banned travel from 8 countries that produce the most Jihadis. Of course, then Sam and the staff who would later build the Free Press, called him a bigot. And not just a bigot, but one so awful that they accepted despite evidence to the contrary that Trump colluded with Russia and said there were good neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. He was so evil that he was dehumanized by the Left and no amount of reprobation was sufficient. The visceral hatred and approval of anything that could harm Trump looks a lot like the marrow-deep hatred of Jews by Hamas minus the paragliders. Hamas is different in scale, but not in in style. When Harris and TFP says they would vote for a Republican which unreservedly supports Israel over someone who downplays the threat from radical Islam for political power and funded Hamas and Hizbollah through Iran, I will welcome them much more enthusiastically.