Facebook friend David was talking about how great it is to be a Marine. David uses present tense, even though it’s been years since he’s been in uniform. There
I approached this lecture, semester after semester, with the focus of a medieval knight challenging the dragon threatening to incinerate the village. I needed
Tom Hanks is the highest-grossing non-superhero American film star. Hanks has received enough honors and awards to fill twelve Wikipedia pages. Hanks is
Recent years have seen eruptions of violence and hate in America: riots, looting, the tearing down of statues. Often those rioting are privileged white youth.
A very big family in a very small house: my childhood home. The youngest of six, fights terrified me. Four older brothers, all over six feet, athletes, hunters
On October 16, 2020, in a Parisian suburb, a Muslim refugee decapitated 47-year-old schoolteacher Samuel Paty. Previously, during a lesson devoted to freedom
Riots broke out in the spring of 2020. Rioters burned city blocks to the ground, shot David Dorn, a black police officer, to death during a Facebook livestream
In recent days, America has produced an astounding spectacle. Americans desecrated and demanded removal of their own statues to their own heroes, including
On May 25, 2020, white police officer Derek Chauvin was video-recorded while arresting African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mahmod
Sohrab Ahmari was born in Iran, grew up Muslim, immigrated to Utah in the United States, became a Marxist, left Marxism, became a conservative journalist, and
On Sunday, January 5, 2020, I was one of an estimated 25,000 protesters participating in the Solidarity March against antisemitism. Chilled and tightly packed
December 26, 2019, the day after Christmas, those Americans who emerged from their holiday celebrations to check world headlines were in for a shock. Police
“My whole body was suffocating. My head throbbed, and my skin oozed sweat from every pore … dressing like the kuffar was evil. I would go to hell if I dressed
In August, 2019, I read an article in the New York Times entitled, “Amid the Kale and Corn, Fears of White Supremacy at the Farmers’ Market.” I used to shop at
If you enjoy gritting your teeth, balling your fists, and throwing objects across rooms, you’ll just love Douglas Murray’s latest, The Madness of Crowds:
America needs a good book entitled How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Though Jews make up 2.2 percent of the US population, Jews constitute 60 percent of religiously
A hundred community members crowded my local library’s public meeting space. Thirty or so toddlers nestled in the laps of their moms and dads in the rows of
I spent 1988-89 as a student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. In 1988, before the wall began to crack, Poland had felt as it had felt on