Adam Vinueza

Some folks from the latter half of the 20th century were utterly murderous prophets. (Thinking about Arendt and Sontag.) The founding of the state of Israel as a re-creation of the “Jewish problem” (Arendt) Arendt, in 1951, divined the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the international community (such as it was) being unable to solve the problem of stateless minorities: After the war it turned out that the Jewish question, which considered the only insoluble one, was indeed solved–but this solved neither the problem of the minorities nor the stateless. On the contrary, like virtually all other events of our century, the solution of the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing hte number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people. ...

The backstory Ten years ago, I was in fantastic shape. I was running most days, roughly 40+ miles per week, and I could run a sub-21-minute 5K. Then I injured my hip, and was essentially unable to run for several months. Since then it was almost impossible for me to get back into a stable routine. Life intervened: the kids grew up and left home; I changed jobs a couple of times; and then COVID hit, like a tsunami. ...