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Prominent foreign policy writer Eli Lake, currently posting at The Free Press, dropped by HoS to talk basketball. I, of course, wanted to discuss Lake’s views on politics, culture and the ever fraught topic of Israel. I’m not sure which of us won the battle for topic allocation, but I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation (and I’ve made the NBA part of it free).

Subjects include, but are not limited to…

* Why Eli is “my least favorite kind of intellectual”

* Eli’s beloved Sixers…getting mighty intriguing?

* How to fix the Warriors

* Eli, much like fellow Philly Jew Spike Eskin, has issues with LeBron’s public persona.

* Why LeBron vs. Daryl Morey on China turned into a crisis at my then place of work

* Is Eli, post October 7th, still friendly with Glenn Greenwald?

* The Zionist case for America ceasing to fund Israel’s military

* Protestors who block bridges against Israeli military action…is there a logic to what they’re doing?

* Are today’s protestors imitating the legend of the 60s? Or doing their own thing?

* Trump at the bodega