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As you may have heard, Elon Musk's AI chatbot  Grok went full-blast Nazi today , culminating in it calling itself "MechaHitler...

Here's one of my least favorite evergreen internet donnybrooks: Person A: So-and-so isn't a real Christian [or insert identity here]...

In the wake of 303 Creative , I argued that one consequence of the Supreme Court's decision would be to supercharge "cancel culture...

A few days ago, three Palestinian-American students were shot in Vermont . One of the wounded students attended Brown University, and so Bro...

In the wake of October 7, one development in public discourse that I do think genuinely shocked a large portion of the Jewish and Israeli co...

Often times, when a public figure is revealed to have engaged in some misconduct and is in the process of apologizing, you will hear dismiss...

The internet is cackling about prominent "anti-woke" conservative Bethany Mandel drawing a complete blank when asked the simple qu...

Speaking of off-ramps , I am trying to transition my main microblogging app off of Twitter and onto an alternative. But so far, the two site...

It is clear, even to Elon Musk (one has to think), that Musk's acquisition of Twitter has been a disaster. It is equally clear that Musk...

Sometimes I think the most important thing we can do keep ourselves politically healthful is to remember the existence of extremists -- both...

Suppose you attend a stand-up comedy performance. You're excited to listen and giggle and laugh. But unfortunately, the comic in questio...

Is it necessarily problematic when people make "wrong" claims of antisemitism? "Wrong", of course, is not a synonym for ...

A few months ago, I described the David Miller controversy as the JDA's "test case" : would it ever be used to declare a conte...

"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...

Yesterday, YIVO held a panel on "The Jewish press today" , featuring top editors from the Forward , JTA , and Tablet Magazine . In...