Thane Rosenbaum
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled “Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself.”
The Folly of Ceasefire
Soon after Israel began its counteroffensive, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. It declined to make any statement condemning Hamas.
Art and Belligerency Off-Broadway
Desperate times call for degenerate measures. For American Jews, this would be a good time to call upon Phillip Roth.
Kristallnacht, Act II
Given the grotesque carnage in southern Israel on October 7, global Jewry is today mindful of a brokenness far worse than glass—the confidence of their place in the world, which far too many had believed was secured.
Speech That Endangers Jewish Lives is Sweeping America
Provocative words like “genocide” and “globalize the intifada” from pro-Hamas sympathizers is nothing less than the sanctioning of violence toward Jews.
Gaza—Where the Moral Math of Revenge Has No Equal
No other nation, most especially the United States, has ever been held to such an exacting standard of precision while responding in self-defense.
The Naked, the Dead, and the Ivy League
Students and faculty offered their full-throated applause to those who gleefully slit the throats of Jewish infants. This on college campuses purportedly obsessed with microaggressions and “safe spaces” granted to defenseless groups.
Barbarians Through the Gate
The murderous events of this past weekend surely now constitutes the fifth military conflict. If Israel does what it must, and what no other nation would hesitate in doing, perhaps this war will be the last.
We Shouldn’t Overdo It With the Apologies
It is time to dispense with the virtue-signaling and dial down the atonement.
Mourning for New York
Is New York capable of another comeback? Can America endure the death march of its cities?