The Debate Link

As you may recall, I wrote a Ha'aretz article recently about President Trump's infamous statement that at least some bomb threats a...

"Can You Be A Zionist Feminist? Linda Sarsour Says No."  blares the headline of The Nation . The Jewish press dutifully followed t...

Answer: Both (frequently) detest the Jews. Jacobin Magazine has a fascinating and thoughtful article by Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss on...

I'm quoted extensively in a Taki's Magazine piece by David Cole  regarding the allegations by Trump and others that some of the re...

The West Wing discusses an attempt to thread the needle between abstinence-only sex education and, well, realism by preaching "everyth...

When it comes to social change, I tend to prefer working within the system rather than seeking its radical overhaul. This isn't due to a...

An Iowa State Senator, Mark Chelgren (R), recently made waves after introducing a bill demanding parity between Democrats and Republicans on...

I have a new column in Ha'aretz talking about the dangerous antisemitism latent in President Trump's insinuation that at least some ...

People in Donald Trump's orbit -- advisors, hangers-on, enthusiastic supporters, and so on -- keep on being implicated in antisemitism  ...

Sitting on my browser for awhile have been a pair of posts by Max Sparber, a Minnesota-based Jewish journalist who is (or was) a regular com...

Last month, I wrote a post entitled "Solidarity is for Goyim".  It was an essay -- more of a series of observations -- that as a J...

Milo's been dropped from Simon & Schuster, as well as CPAC , after clips came out showing him defending pedophilia. This is long o...

A Lebanese-Canadian writer, Mila Ghorayeb, has written a wonderful post on the interaction of leftist politics and antisemitism . It is a tr...

Michael Flynn, of late the National Security Advisor to President Trump, has resigned . Many are cheering, but Flynn still has some backers ...

Republicans understand that Israel resides in a dangerous part of the world. Its security -- its very survival -- depends on the daily navig...

Regarding the DNC race, I'll just let Erik Loomis speak for me : I am through with the discussion over the next DNC Chair. While th...

It's my (actual me, not the blog's) birthday today! Board games and deep dish pizza is the plan for the evening, and I consider that...

Kevin Drum  reads Andrew Stuttaford  on Brexit, and the horrors the UK is subjected itself to in the process of trying to negotiate it. Drum...

You can read the per curiam opinion here  (the panel included two Democratic appointees and one Republican appointee). It is worth stressing...

Last term, I taught Introduction to American Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. As you can imagine, teaching "Introduc...