The Debate Link

Suppose you stop at a traffic light. There are, say, four cars ahead of you. Eventually, the light turns green. When that happens, the first...

The Jerusalem Post reports on Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander being harangued at a protest (against a Hindu nationalist event...

"The Flight 93 election" was a term used by conservatives in 2016 to justify voting for Donald Trump. The basic idea was that, ev...

When I wrote Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty , my goal was to demonstrate how conservative proponents of expansive religious liberty exem...

When Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for Michigan Senate in a nail-biter, there was some talk about this actually being a disap...

Every once in awhile, I fall into a deep, existential panic over the concept of moral luck . Moral luck, per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Ph...

In a rematch of their 2024 contest, Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell prevailed over former Rep. Cori Bush, whom Bell ousted in his own primary ch...

A few years ago, I flagged a fun phenomenon afflicting WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark . You see, as a White superstar in a league with many Bl...

On Thursday, a large influx of migrants (reportedly 60,000) crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the mainland African coas...

One of Zohran Mamdani's signature policy initiatives just launched -- a tax on pied-à-terres. The tax would apply to second homes (i.e.,...

This year, animal rights activists in Oregon tried to get a petition on the ballot that would extend the state's animal cruelty laws to ...

  As some of you know, my recent hobby-obsession is art collecting . And while I don't limit myself to one particular medium, to the ext...

The other day, I put up a skeet complaining about the faction of progressive commentators who were mad at Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for...

In a recent blog post, Nachum Kaplan claims that the shift in Israel's security orientation post-10/7 stems from its rejection of "...

A small independent movie theater near me with a reputation for witty marquees put up the following display to advertise Christopher Nolan...

Nathaniel has been sent home from daycare again, with suspected hand foot and mouth disease (aka coxsackie). As you may recall , he had this...

I have a confession to make. I enjoy googling myself. Okay? I admit it. And as embarrassing as that admission is, I'm also going to real...

Rabbi Seth Winberg, executive director of Hillel at Brandeis, has an interesting/infuriating essay up on JTA about the growing number of yo...

Long-timers may recall that periodic Project Runway chirping is a recurrent feature on this blog. The oldest post I was able to find about t...

(It's a TPBTJF double-header -- click here! ) Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner has dropped out of the race  following accu...