The man who spent 20 years of his life fighting America’s forever wars in the Middle East and lost his wife to an ISIS attack is vilified by “puffy petulant” policy wonks who never served a day. Reading the revolting vilifications of Joe Kent—who just resigned his…
Brilliant way to prove Bibi’s not blackmailing you. American democracy is the kind of system where you can vote and vote and vote, but no matter how many times you vote for less war and less immigration, the government is going to give you more war and more immigration. It’s always…
Kestenbaum takes political shape-shifting to a whole new level. In the annals of political opportunism, few transformations have been as swift or as lucrative as that of Shabbos Kestenbaum. The 27-year-old Harvard graduate has journeyed from voting for Bernie Sanders and attending the 2016 Democratic National Convention…
God help us all. Ali Larijani was killed in his daughter’s home on a Tuesday morning. His son alongside him. A residential area in the outskirts of eastern Tehran levelled in the strike. Iranian state TV confirmed it before sunrise. He was, by most accounts, the last…
The Duke lacrosse hoax showed how accusation can outpace evidence—and how media, politics, and grievance can turn fiction into “truth” with lasting damage. It was a case that captured the nation’s attention 20 years ago. In March of 2006, a black stripper accused three members of Duke…
Billy Hughes and the Defense of White Australia. In the early months of 1919, the city of Paris was transformed into the undisputed capital of the world. As the lingering winter snows melted into a cold, wet spring, the grand boulevards and opulent hotels of the French…
In a recently released NY Post op-ed, teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe described why she publicly resigned from the Dwight-Englewood School in 2021 after witnessing what she calls an ideological takeover of K-12 education. She writes that the shift began after faculty trainings on privilege and the hiring of…
Just before the US-Israeli war on Iran went kinetic, I shared my thoughts on literal “poop” deck of the USS Gerald Ford. “T-shirts and mop heads are finding their way into the pipes, and the proper explanation is sailors are attempting to declog these post-modern shit-suckers, but a bit…
President Trump’s movement might not survive the war. I AM THAT I AM. Thus spake God to Moses, instructing him to “say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” President Donald Trump has been saying something similar lately: I AM…
Some Harsh Lessons To Be Learned From Islam In Our Classrooms. What’s the most valuable lesson a Western child can learn at school today? That they now inhabit a deliberately unfair two-tier social system, in which it’s one rule for Muslims, one rule for everyone else—a two-tier…
