SocietyCommentary
Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of… Read More
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Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Since World War II, most American Jews have believed that the more secular American society is, the more secure their status. This has been, as… Read More
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In my long life, I have never personally experienced antisemitism in America. I was raised by Jewish parents who believed that the best place Jews… Read More
PoliticsNews
Left-wing American Jews feel betrayed by the Left. It’s a Left that remains anti-Israel even after the greatest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness. That also surprised nearly every Israeli. My guess is that… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Moral equivalence has two purposes. One is to enable the morally confused to hide their confusion. The other is to enable the immoral to hide… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“In every generation they arise to annihilate us.” That statement appears in the Haggadah, the book read from at the Passover Seder. The book is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave—nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from… Read More
EducationCommentary
Most of our schools teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil. In the United States… Read More
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I am writing this column on a beautiful sunny day in Southern California. It is a Monday in mid-August, so it is not a national… Read More
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The New York Post reports: About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government… Read More
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In case you were in doubt—and if you were in doubt, that means you aren’t following what is happening in America to the most important… Read More
EducationCommentary
In February, I was invited along with Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, and Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestseller “Rich Dad, Poor… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There is a pandemic in the Western world—especially, but not only, in America—that few are talking about, let alone addressing. This pandemic doesn’t actually kill… Read More
SocietyCommentary
After a speech in Romania last week, I was asked a question by a young member of the audience that, remarkably, I don’t remember ever… Read More
InternationalCommentary
This one of the saddest of the more than 1,000 columns I have written. I am writing in Budapest after spending four days in Warsaw… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I’ve never understood ethnic, race, gender, or sex pride. Even as a kid. For my bar mitzvah, someone gave me a book titled “Great Jews… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There are four primary reasons that fewer and fewer people in America and the West take God, the Bible, or religion seriously: 1. The belief… Read More
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Last week, Otto, my beloved English bulldog, died. He died as he lived—peacefully. His presence in our home for 12 years was an unmitigated joy…. Read More
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A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America… Read More
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My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Given the damage the Left and the Left’s political party, the Democrats, are doing to America, you would think conservatives would understand that defeating the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank—the bank that just went bust—was not banking. Nor was it making money for… Read More
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The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This past Saturday night, the New York Rangers National Hockey League team did something almost unbelievable. Though scheduled to wear LGBTQ “Pride” jerseys during pregame… Read More
EducationCommentary
There are very few things conservatives, liberals, and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational… Read More
SocietyCommentary
At the present time, China is the greatest threat to world stability, Russia is the world’s premier aggressor-nation, and Islamist groups are the primary exporters… Read More
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My previous column, “Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas,” dealt with the issue of parents whose left-wing adult children… Read More
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There are probably hundreds of thousands of men and women who, because of political differences, maintain minimal or no contact with their parents and, even… Read More
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Secular conservatives have done, and continue to do, great work on behalf of America, liberty, and conservatism in general. But they will not likely have… Read More