intellectualize

Martiel doesn’t intellectualize slavery’s wake; instead, he makes it terribly present, in the body of a living person: his own.

His exchange with Hussain and Rosenberg promoted the humanity in these debates instead of turning them into a battle of statistics: These are people who have lost family and friends in this war and aren’t inclined to purely intellectualize the whys and hows of it.

It makes sense to me that Palestinians and Israelis living in the conflict would develop what The New York Times called a lethal psychological chasm, but I expect something different from those of us with the luxury of peace and safety, the privilege to intellectualize from our computer screens, and the freedom to march on the streets.

Levi doesn’t intellectualize it like that, doesn’t have a straightforward intention.

Mainstream adult press, and the punditry class, intellectualize their coverage of Trump/MAGA/GOP primary voters; columns and op-eds yearning for someone within the Republican Party to save the party, and save America from another term, almost always, are coming from centrist and center-left media.