# Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)

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Podcast: [Uncertain Things](https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822)
Published: 2025-08-12T22:22:52+00:00
Episode link: https://uncertain.substack.com/p/ruth-wisse-jews-socialism-power-resentment
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## Resource

It is an extra (((special))) episode on Uncertain Things as Ruth Wisse, senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and author of Jews and Power , hosts Adaam for Friday afternoon cookies and Talmud. The two discussed the wave of resentment that threatens to consume American culture ( or Annihilism , as Adaam stubbornly calls it ), the problem (or lack thereof) of inequality, the Jewish rejection of Weakness Worship, and what it means to stand witness to evil. On the (((agenda))): -Neocons love assimilation [1:30] -Accents are genocide [9:00] -The idea that disparity is evil is evil [17:00] -Charity and dignity (and pity) [27:00] -Gratitude, resentment, and feminism [34:00] -What’s up with American Jews… plus American liberalism… plus standing witness to evil [48:00] Also: - Adaam and Yuval Levin talk about the nature of liberalism, beauty and conservatism - Howard Jacobson at Tablet Magazine on the death of a tailor Uncertain Things is hosted and produced by Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk. For more doomsday thoughts, subscribe to: http://uncertain.substack.com. Get full access to Uncertain Things at uncertain.substack.com/subscribe

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