First off, let’s recognize and understand — in full disclosure — that I am not necessarily a typical rabbi. I bring with me only the following credentials over the years: six years on the executive committee of the Rabbinical Council…
Last week in Philadelphia, during an episode which is predictably all too common in that city and lots of others like it, a rampaging looter invaded a pizzeria and sought to pillage the contents of its cash register. What happened…
It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Over there in the New York Times columnist David Leonhardt has headlined this: America’s Anti-Democratic Movement It’s making progress. Without the least sense of irony or self-awareness, Leonhardt says the following,…
The anti-Semites at Ben & Jerry’s came out a month or two against Israel. I did two things. The second of those things was to publish a series of articles in The American Spectator, the Jerusalem Post, Israel National News,…
By pursuing identity-group politics, liberals are provoking the attacks they claim to deplore. What the Left ignores in their drive to remake America’s definition of rights is that there are consequences from severing rights from individuals and attaching them to…
I am looking for a name to describe today’s progressive Left, and perhaps you can help. Some people I know call left-wing Dems “communists,” and I’ve always hated that. It brings back memories of the Red Scare and reds under…
Fortunately for all of us, we are not given birth to in the basements of Capitol Hill, with Nancy Pelosi playing midwife, Kamala Harris reading us our rights to be male, female, neutral, transgender, fluid, binary, or gaseous, and Joe…
Recently here at The American Spectator, Wlady Pleszczynski and the editors paid fitting tribute to Tom Bethell, a prolific contributor to this venerable publication going way back to 1976. Longtime readers here know Bethell’s name well. Other than our intrepid…
The cancel culture is the guillotine of today’s Left. History shows the Left always resort to repression. The only brakes on their innate impulse are the extent of their power and the technology at their disposal. The limit of the…