Back during the COVID pandemic, I was among the few travelers in an eerily empty Penn Station in New York City.  We travelers seemed to be outnumbered by the homeless and police. A bicycle-pushing man’s nonsensical shouts about racism echoed through the cavernous space. The police stood in [...]

Numerous American colleges and universities find themselves in peril of losing some or all of their federal research funding. Harvard has leaped to the front of the line. Previously, Columbia University, because it was named first, attracted the most attention. The other Ivy League universities are not far [...]

One of the more consequential themes in Nazi antisemitic propaganda was the accusation that Jews had a plan to conquer the world and enslave mankind. This accusation was based on a text, widely accepted among gentiles at the time as “true.” Entitled The Protocols of the Elders of [...]

Question any keffiyeh-clad students whether they are right wingers at your own peril – at best you’ll be laughed at. Why should you even ask?  Pro-Palestine means Left – and that’s a high percentage of college students. According to a Pew Research survey released in April 2024, younger [...]

As a young man, I was invited to dinner at the home of a senior professor at a respected liberal arts college. A man of conservative views and polished manners, he was cordial and witty. After dinner, he took me into his well-appointed library filled with the volumes [...]

This is the concluding part of Unmasking Trump Derangement Syndrome. Part 1, which ran last week,  focused on defining and describing TDS, and then debunking the core claim of TDS.  If you missed reading Part 1, click here.  This concluding part identifies the central socio-political drivers of TDS [...]

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) both exemplifies and exacerbates the cultural maladies that drive our deeply divided public discourse. Too often, these divisions result in a loss of friends and damaging relationships with family members and colleagues. As significantly, the targeting of individuals for cancellation in the workplace and [...]

Elsewhere I have demonstrated precisely why anti-Zionism is antisemitism. In doing so I encountered the arguments of journalist Mehdi Hasan, formerly of MSNBC but now perhaps more at home with Al Jazeera.  Credibility concerns aside, he is well known and influential, and his arguments for the negative answer [...]

Can Western civilization survive?  One wonders.  It is mostly the small things that fuel the disquiet.  An illegal immigrant sets a woman on the F train in Brooklyn on fire, and all that the fellow passengers can think to do is to record her immolation on their cell [...]

America’s military power is consistently regarded as the strongest on the planet. Considered together with its leading allies, the American alliance system includes five of the world’s top ten militaries, plus eight more from among the top thirty. In stark contrast, the opposing alliance system led by Russia [...]