The Debate Link

Sometimes, when I feel especially glum about the state of campus politics or political debates on Israel or "antisemitism on the left...

We should be clear -- this was a bipartisan bill, in the sense that Americans of both parties backed its content . It passed on a party line...

When it came out that Nikki Haley was "breaking" with Trump, publicly saying "we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’...

The below feels like one of those math puzzles, though I don't actually know enough about math puzzles to know if it really is one. It i...

One of my recent areas of scholarship is the case of the "dissident minority" , a member of a minority group who dissents from som...

There's a common debate that pops up every time a celebrity or some other figure runs into a scandal, one that's serious enough to t...

As many of you know, I did my clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, for the late Judge Diana E. Murphy. It...

The New York Times has a harrowing story about women in Venezuela who cannot access contraception . A raging economic recession has made con...

This post has no political content whatsoever. It is a random, rather inane question I was pondering last night. When I think of where ...

The JTA's headline says it all: "Nikki Haley broke with Trump. It could make her a Jewish GOP favorite in 2024." Well, perhaps...

Contrast two JTA stories of Republican congresspersons who had recently antagonized, or at least raised the eyebrows of, the Jewish communit...

We keep on hearing complaints from Republicans about how the COVID relief bill needs to be "bipartisan". For my part, I'm all ...

When I saw Tablet Magazine had published a rapidly-going-viral article on the California Ethnic Studies curriculum, I felt a despairing sen...

The post I wrote the other day, debunking some claims in a widely-shared Tablet Magazine article about the latest draft of California'...

Republican House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to Jews calling her out for antisemitism in the classic Republican fashion : telling ...

A few years ago, back in 2019,  there was a significant controversy over California's draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC). Bas...

I have a new article out, entitled "Sadomasochistic Judging" , in Constitutional Commentary . Nominally a book review of Richard F...

A DC statehood bill has officially been introduced in the Senate . I've been a big proponent of DC statehood for some time now . And one...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's eulogy for Sheldon Adelson doesn't mince words: It's titled "I hate everything ...

The Joe Biden administration has already begun with a bit more fire than the "sleepy Joe" chanting GOP had probably hoped for. Amo...