Apocalypse Now: New York City Behind the Iron Curtain
Dr. Alexander Nussbaum ——Bio and Archives--November 8, 2025
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On November 4, 2025, the iron curtain descended on New York City. That day marks the end of New York City as a financial and cultural center. It also marks the end of Jewish life in New York City. What's the difference between Mount Everest and Mamdani's New York City? Both are extremely dangerous. Neither has a grocer nor a police force. But Mount Everest will get tourists.
The notion that human life has any special value is a concept alien to most of human history and thought. It exists only in the west, and only after centuries of a synthesis between enlightenment values and Judeo-Christian values. Colleges, a world where postmodernism reigns, teach “a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” Israel’s tragedy is that it had been faced since before independence with enemies who do not put any value on the lives of their own children, let alone the lives of Jewish children.
When old furniture becomes inconvenient to have, we break it to pieces and throw it out. There is no moral qualm to doing that. But that's the........





















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