The Debate Link

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court in Jones v. Mississippi ruled 6-3 that states can sentence juveniles to life without parole so long as...

Earlier this week, I bought a bunch of Lego sets that appeared to be on sale -- four "Star Wars" sets, and one "Harry Potter...

Here's my scary/controversial hypothesis of the day: Right now, the national elected GOP is a moderating influence on the American conse...

A few days ago, my wife and I watched Margin Call . It's a movie I had oddly never heard of until last week -- oddly, because it got ver...

The big story today is that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo allegedly complained about campaigning on Sukkot by saying, referring to Orthodo...

"I need to find a New Yorker so I can justify this whole pro-slavery stance I've backed myself into ." I pity The National Rev...

Joe Biden has set out a muscular, progressive agenda. This has come as a surprise to some people, particularly those on the leftier edge of ...

Last we encountered the "Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies" (ACES), they were pushing fabricated evidence and wild screeds ...

I have a new column in Haaretz on the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and, in particular, on the need for its backers to actually use...

A good definition needs to do two things. It needs to tell you what a concept is , and it needs to tell you what a concept is not . But thes...

Yet another antisemitism framework has emerged, with the release of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism  (JDA) signed by around two hu...

Noah Feldman has a truly idiotic -- and I don't say that lightly, but it's bad  -- column arguing against DC statehood because it m...

The other day, the Washington Post published a story about a kerfuffle at Richmond's Virginia Commonwealth University , where the Jewish...

For over a year now, I've been part of a task force (known as "Nexus") seeking to provide greater guidance on the intersection...