Bret Stephens’ ‘Free Imaginative Variation’ in a minor key!

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Sep 24, 2025

Editor: A very short quotation from Bret Stephens latest exercise of free imaginative variation, of September 23, 2025 in The New York Times:

It’s a cliché, but can’t be said enough, that speech is genuinely free only when it’s speech we like the least from those we dislike the most. Rosa Luxemburg put it well: “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

Shana tova.

(Hebrew. Used as a greeting during Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe; or shana tova (שָׁנָה טוֹבָה), “a good year”, or shana tova umetuqa (שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה) “a good and sweet year”)

Editor: The very notion that Zionist Political Shill Bret Stephens would quote Rosa Luxemburg, makes this reader cringe!

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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