There have been demands that the three presidents – of Harvard, MIT, and Penn – step down because of their refusal to define calls for genocide of Jews as “harassment” and their insistence that it be put into “context” instead. … Continue reading →
… in the hands of the left. Then again, that happened a long time ago. Apparently, any attack by Israel is a genocide, according to the anti-Israel anti-Jew crowd on the left and in the Arab world. Those on the … Continue reading →
The results of Argentina’s recent election are interesting, to say the least: [Argentina] has just elected a radical free-market economics professor named Javier Milei as its new president … … Milei’s landslide win over an entrenched left-wing political machine Juan … Continue reading →
This new book – The Canceling of the American Mind, about leftism and cancel culture at universities in the US – looks interesting. It obviously harks back to Allan’s Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, and … Continue reading →
Congress approved another stopgap measure to avoid a shutdown: The United States Senate passed a continuing resolution late Wednesday night that will, at least for now, avoid a government shutdown. The bill passed by a margin of 87–11, with 10 … Continue reading →
O’Neill writes: It is time to ask ourselves if our woke elites are not just Hamas’s useful idiots, but its unofficial spindoctors. Not just excuse-makers for Islamist barbarism, but authors of the very justifications the Islamists offer up for their … Continue reading →
Suella Braverman was just starting to grab my attention. Then just like that – poof! – she’s gone. But she may return in some other capacity in the future, particularly as a challenger for the role of head of the … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” wonders, as does commenter “Mike K”: “The other day I read a number that I have trouble accepting. It was that 50% of Democrat contributions come from Jews.” Mike K: I saw that too and wondered. Dunno. I … Continue reading →
Biden call it a “humanitarian pause,” of course. And indeed, it would be very kind to Hamas. But remember that old saying, “Whoever is kind to the cruel will end up being cruel to the kind.” An actual humanitarian pause … Continue reading →
It’s no puzzlement why Palestinians or other Arabs in this country might do it. But what about the non-Arab contingent ripping down these posters? Jeff Jacoby has an explanation, and I think he’s spot on: The posters went viral overnight. … Continue reading →
Charles Lipson writes: The virulent anti-Israel protests across America and Europe throw a glaring light on the bizarre alliance between left-wing activists and militant Muslims. That odd combination has been the bedrock of political activism at universities and in the … Continue reading →
Shortly after Trump was elected in 2016 – and even during the campaign – I noticed that anyone who wore a MAGA hat was being demonized as a racist and a violent extremist. This seemed like a very ominous turn … Continue reading →