The Debate Link

My SunriseDC posts have gotten me a bunch of new followers , and I've promised to start disappointing them as soon as possible. Well, ...

After furious pushback from pretty much every quarter, Sunrise DC claims to be reflecting and pondering upon the reaction it got from its a...

"I'm so proud of you!" As a professor, I have happily had many occasions to speak and think these words. Whenever one of my st...

The problem with the internet is that it's full of bad people. Let me explain. The internet is also full of good people. And average peo...

The American Federation of Teachers has several hundred thousand dollars invested in Israel bonds . It has publicly endorsed a two-state sol...

You've probably seen by now the story about a Texas school administrator suggesting to teachers that, in the wake of recent supposedly ...

95% of discourse applying the "indigenous" frame to Israel/Palestine, whether "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine" ...

The full recording of the antisemitism symposium I was a part of (hosted by Yael Aronoff of Michigan State University) is now online. The mo...

IHRA's big open question is "Is there any specific, controversial (left-wing) case, that some people contend is antisemitic, that I...

I was fiddling with my LinkedIn profile today, and I came across a "suggested" summary of my professional career path. So, here...

When the Supreme Court upheld an affirmative action program at the University of Michigan Law School as pursuing the compelling state intere...

Yesterday, the 2nd Circuit rejected several states' challenge  to the elimination of the "SALT" (State and Local Tax) deductio...

But not quite billions of thoughts. Anyway, some spoilers for Billions , which just wrapped its (split) season five today. The terms "p...

The eminent Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt introduced a very useful term into our lexicon when she spoke about "softcore Holocaus...

Michigan State University is hosting a mini-symposium on antisemitism next Friday . The panelists include David Nirenberg, Eric Ward, Ethan ...

The West Virginia Attorney General has issued an opinion decrying the legality of vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, or basically anything...

Tell me where Adam Serwer is wrong here: Those who attempted to subvert democracy have faced few political or legal consequences. As is typ...

As of today, approximately two-thirds of Americans have received at least one COVID vaccine shot . I am, of course, one of them (fully vacci...

A petition -- launched by a UC-Berkeley student organization, and now with ~8000 signatures -- demands that the UC-Berkeley admin "take...

*Spoilers* Brooklyn Nine Nine had its series finale today. Jill and I have watched the show from the beginning -- we were hooked from the fi...