Fear and Loathing in the Desert – A poem for Parsha Ki Tisa

The genocide of the Jews is turned morally inside out. The victims are transformed into the villains — making it not only appropriate, but righteous, to have another go at ridding the world of them.

The West is at an inflection point. Will it continue to submit, as Douglas Murray has put it, to a form of fascism that pretends to be a religion? Or will Zohran become the bridge too far — the Islamic zealot who forces the U.S. to finally say: Enough.

Resurrecting the middle class represents the nation’s foremost challenge, and accomplishing this objective requires a concerted commitment and decisive action.

The Palestinians will never be free by killing Jews. They will only be free when they free themselves from their eliminationist mindset.

Talk to any person in extreme old age who is thriving, and you find someone who is endlessly curious.

The Carlson I see now is unrecognizable—a man who cloaks ignorance in faux patriotism and traffics in rhetoric that is unmistakably antisemitic.

It may be time to move Israel Studies to a hospitable home off-campus to offer a new generation a rigorous and nuanced curriculum that may be lacking at college today.

Over the past year-and-a-half, I’ve witnessed something deeply disturbing: empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”