Israel
When Israel acts badly, I can’t condone it
Recent violence got so bad that in a highly unusual move, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu issued a public denunciation of the “criminal acts.”
Woke
Guest essay: Who should pay for ‘Woke 1’ excesses?
If liberals want to be serious about standing up for liberty, they have a particular obligation to acknowledge and reject the illiberalism that swept so much of the left in recent years.
Donald J. Trump
Trump is the most consequential President
Last week on a single newspaper page, there were three stories about Trump, each of which would have been unusual for any other President, but Trump made them a trifecta.
Graham Platner
Times reporting puts Nazi nipple on defense
Graham Platner is the retired Marine oyster farmer with a trail of social media posts that echo of homophobia, misogynism, anti-Semitism, and lying.
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson
You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.
Political Moderation
NYTimes preaches moderation to Democrats
American politics today can seem to be dominated by extremes. President Trump is carrying out far-right policies, while some of the country’s highest-profile Democrats identify as democratic socialists. Moderation sometimes feels outdated. It is not.
Benyamin Netanyahu
Cheltenham High’s controversy over Benyamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu has been convicted of nothing, other than having a bad public image.
Culture
What fact about the New Orleans killer was suppressed?
Questions asked by a journalist of other journalists about the terror attack in New Orleans.: First, yes, enough is known by now to call it “terror.” My first question is why almost every news report identified the attacker as a U.S. Army veteran. He was. That is true. How
Culture
The chronicles of Cotton
Tom Cotton is the very conservative junior senator from Arkansas, which should guarantee him a certain degree of anonymity, which he has overcome by being 1) very conservative, and 2) very articulate. Maybe not too much of a surprise from a man who got both his undergraduate and law degree
Culture
Guest essay: A liberal academic tells what’s wrong with liberal academics, and newsrooms
By Johnathan Zimmerman Earlier this month, I read the single sharpest criticism of the American university I’ve encountered in many years. And it wasn’t even about the American university. It’s an essay that appeared in the Economist by former The New York Times opinion editor James Bennet,
Israel
Bad reporting is serious business
Truth is the first casualty in war, they say. They also talk about the fog of war. Both cliches are true, but people who are paid to disseminate information are supposed to exercise caution. There is an adage in journalism that goes like this: “Get it first, but first get
Journalism
How the media handled Palin, and Durham
The lawyer writing for the NBC website says Sarah Palin probably feels like she was jobbed by Judge Jed Rakoff, and the lawyer understands that feeling, but . . . First, Palin had a high bar to clear, suing a newspaper as a public official. With that said, the judge did not dismiss