The Debate Link

Somehow, I scratched my left cornea pretty badly yesterday. Ever managed to get dehydrated simply by your eye tearing up? Now I have! Anyw...

Earlier this week I wrote on how the Academic Engagement Network -- a prominent scholarly anti-BDS group -- applauded CUNY for not giving ...

Michael Tomasky gives us the latest installment of an everflowering series: crudely caricaturing "coastal elites" while purporting...

Yair Rosenberg has a good article up on the deep, deep Jewish antipathy for the UK Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership  -- suc...

The  Academic Engagement Network is a national organization dedicated to academic freedom and, specifically, opposed to the BDS movement. A...

The 4th Circuit has upheld the injunction against President Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban . Its opinion rests heavily on various statem...

Some people didn't want Linda Sarsour giving a commencement address at CUNY. Those people included notorious Islamophobe Pam Geller and ...

Today, walking to lunch in Berkeley, I was shoved into a wall. I'm fine, mostly. Some minor scrapes on my wrist and soreness in my sho...

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu recently decided to take down several city monuments honoring various Confederate leaders. Unsurprisingly, ...

A few weeks ago, I read another article (in the UK's Independent)  about the latest set of antisemitism controversies in the UK's Na...

The Israel Group sent out a message to their listserv warning of  BDS starting to emerge at two Israeli universities -- Hebrew University in...

Remember those annoying Jill Stein voters who "honestly preferred" that Donald Trump win the election because it would inevitably ...

One of the odder tropes of current conservative discourse related to the possibility of constraining the excesses of the Trump administratio...

FiveThirtyEight has an interesting graphic about which groups Democrats and Republicans think face "a lot of discrimination." ...

On the first weekend of May, my true love gave to me .... Five restaurants to eat at; Four Schraubs/Roddes with us; Three days in Vegas;...

Jacob Katz, editor of the Jerusalem Post , on why his newspaper invited neo-Nazi-linked White House advisor Sebastian Gorka to speak at thei...

A popular Israeli singer's scheduled concert in the Detroit area was canceled after organizers received threats and could no longer guar...

Sometimes, I change my mind about things. That's normal, indeed, healthy. We should change our minds, sometimes. When we get new infor...

The House of Representatives, in a razor-thin 217-213 vote, has voted to repeal and replace Obamacare with the AHCA . The crucial amendment ...

There's some chatter that Democrats actually hope that House Republicans manage to pass the AHCA (aka, Obamacare repeal), on the ground...