Cataclysmic world events — the fall of the Soviet Union, the Iranian Revolution, September 11, Donald Trump’s ascendancy — should cause cataclysmic, or at least fundamental, changes in thought. To be an intellectual, or a citizen, means to respond to history, to think anew, rather than be beholden to one’s oldest, fondest, but no longer useful ideas. The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 was surely one of those history-altering events; so is the war in Gaza. But rather than inspire honest reassessments and new modes of thought, they have birthed, instead, dangerously Manichean analyses among a coterie of leftist intellectuals. For too many writers, it has evidently become impossible to keep two — much less several — thoughts in one’s head simultaneously.
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