The Evil of This Time

• In Event: Enlargement of Liberal Horizons

Abstract

The events of October 7, 2023 and its aftermath have put ordinary citizens in an upside-down historical moment. How did so many respectable people bring themselves to the point of justifying that attack? Since people live and die under color of the ideas that paint their sky, our question will be, where is our shared Western culture intellectually?

Author

• Abigail L. Rosenthal, Brooklyn College of the City of New York