The Debate Link

The Stanford student council is in the process of considering a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. During its deliberations, one senator, ...

Israel, including the Israeli Defense Forces, commits human rights violations against Palestinians as part and parcel of its ongoing occupat...

[H]e immediately said, "I'm so sick of hearing about the fucking Holocaust" (which I hadn't mentioned). Melanie Kaye/Kan...

I've periodically commented on the saga of Dani Dayan, settler leader and vocal opponent of a two-state solution, whom we last saw as Bi...

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) has vetoed a "religious liberty" bill that would have enabled widespread discrimination against ...

Haaretz has just published my defense of the UC Regents' "Principles Against Intolerance" and my critique  of those crying cen...

The Atlantic has a very interesting short story on how the rise of the Goldwater movement in 1964 was the final nail in the coffin for Black...

Today, the University of California Regents approved a document articulating its "Principles Against Intolerance." The proposal h...

A few days ago, Eugene Volokh posted an opinion by Emory University's "Standing Committee for Open Expression" which gave a b...

In a conference meant to convey unity in the pro-Israel community, nothing has been more divisive for AIPAC than Monday's scheduled spee...

Back in 2009, I wrote a post commenting on the metacontroversy surrounding the appointment of Chas Freeman as chair of the Obama Administra...

I am an admitted skeptic of English as a discipline; particularly when it seeks to intrude on other (e.g., my) academic domains and argue th...

This is unbelievable. Dr. Ben Carson on why he endorsed Trump : Q: If someone like Mr. Trump can call you, an acclaimed and noted neuros...

I had no idea that, on his Twitter account, Mitch McConnell goes by "Leader McConnell": Thank you @BretBaier for the lively dis...

And the nominee is ... Merrick Garland, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals!  (Looks like my SCOTUS  pick streak comes to an end -- but two out o...

In the Forward , Sigal Samuel contributes a new entry to the debates regarding intersectional discourse and the place of Mizrahi Jews inside...

Last December, I posted some disheartening poll numbers out of Palestine  which suggested that strong majorities  opposed a two-state soluti...

I linked to it on Facebook and Twitter, but it deserves a mention here: John Strawson has written an outstanding essay  on the ongoing ...

Erik Loomis tackles a Roger Cohen column on campus anti-Semitism , which he labels as "Bad Arguments About Israel." I wouldn'...

I don't like protesting. I don't like sit-ins or marches or chanting or lists of ultimatums. Perhaps some of this is that I don...