The Debate Link

The other day, Ezra Klein tweeted this : The Trump bet is paying off for the GOP. They got tax cuts. They got SCOTUS picks. They got dere...

Max Weber has a quote ( Yair Rosenberg just promoted it ), regarding the proper role of a teacher: "The primary task of a useful teac...

The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Hawaii is a disgrace . There are many things to be said on this disgrace -- what it means, wh...

No comment other than to note that Justice Jackson took time off from his duties as a Supreme Court Justice to be the lead prosecutor in the...

I'm a bit late on this question, but this is a great explainer from Daily Kos Elections on why yes, Democrats should be targeting (amon...

Another season of Westworld is in the books. And since I need to at least semi-regularly offer pop culture commentary as dessert for the pol...

Following Ramah's histrionic letter disavowing IfNotNow and saying they'd never allow "antisemitic" content in their Israe...

Right now, the Republican Party is trying to square a very nettlesome circle. On the one hand, they want to communicate that they care about...

The Southern Policy Law Center has formally apologized to Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation  for including them in a 2016 list of ...

My last post on IfNotNow's attempt to introduce Palestinian narratives into Jewish summer camp programming suggested that INN missed an ...

When I wrote my Forward article on how Israel doesn't care about American Jews , the most common response from Israeli readers was ...

The American Jewish Committee has released its 2018 survey of American Jewish opinion  (along with Israeli Jewish opinion  -- and they conve...

I have a relatively negative view of IfNotNow. It's certainly not from any pro-occupation place, but every time I see them in action the...

I already did an entry in this series where people blamed the Jews for Trump's election (it ... did not take long). But this one is a l...

The Supreme Court  has issued its long-anticipated decision in the Masterpiece Cake  case  (where a Christian baker refused to make a weddin...

Carrie Rickey has a fabulous article in the Forward documenting Hollywood's history of casting non-Jews to play Jews  (alongside the fam...

First of all, if you're not reading Short Circuit (hosted on the Volokh Conspiracy blog), you're missing out. It's a great comp...

So a different syndication service I use -- NetworkedBlogs -- is shutting down . I'm not happy with dlvr.it (it's utterly inadequat...

Haaretz has republished a version of my post from earlier this month: "Tamika Mallory's Israel Rehabilitation Tour." Also, ...

I've got a new personal website! I finally bit the bullet and got myself professional(ish) homepage for my academic life. It felt like...