I am a Jewish academic. Both of my calendars begin and end in September.

Amen! Thinking about sending greeting cards to this effect.

But after blocklisting bad feelings off the TL, many have stopped paying attention to what is unfolding in full, public view, on the right. And it's serious stuff; there's an epistemic danger that comes from reducing the right to a big amorphous blob of Evil. They face the same problems as the Dems:

Seriously… The field is riddled with white supremacists, happy to explain why it’s just logical that European civilization is superior and why Jews can’t help but try to undermine society from within…

That makes sense… especially of you’ve not yet let go of the 20th century.

Unless I am missing something, the Sharpton thing is odd. Nothing against the man, but where does he specifically fit? It implies a certain anxious question about generational transfers of power.