From Under the Basket

Tag: #Jews

  • Why the Jews Are So Good

    The other day I was watching Tiggernometry and in this episode Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster were discussing Antisemitism with Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. During the course of the discussion, they made the observation that Jews seem to dominate many areas of intellectual life. That would include the number of Nobel Prize winners, academics,…

  • Antisemitism

    You have to wonder, why is there so much antisemitism in the world? Some claim it’s a holdover from the Christian Middle Ages, but hatred of the Jews predates the Christian era. The book of Acts in the New Testament speaks of Emperor Claudius kicking the Jews out of the city of Rome. Pagan Rome…