In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

In the middle of last night, it was revealed to me in a dream that Alissa Heinerscheid, the independently wealthy Harvard legacy who achieved her 15 minutes of fame when she made Dylan Mulvaney the spokestrans for Bud Ligfht a year ago, is actually the social theorist behind the current wave of campus pogroms -- and this despite her own Jewish heritage -- with maybe a little bit of help from Charles Manson. Hear me out. I began to puzzle this through when I mentioned in a recent post that unlike 1968, when campus unrest was paralleled by riots in the ghettos, there's so far been no equivalence between student grievances and those of the African-American community. If fact, Al Sharpton has expressed deep skepticism of the pro-Palestine protests. There's no intersectional resonance. Instead, over the weeend, we had these stories : President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the...