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Trump dumping the Eagles brings together two things that his supporters like about him. 1. He fights culture wars 2. He doesn’t care about the liberal consensus, but the conservative one. Past Republican presidents would occasionally, very tentatively, wade into culture wars, usually with a nice speech, that would be roundly mocked. And then retreat.…

Howard Schultz, the executive chairman of Starbucks, has stepped down and may be running for president. But Schultz has always been political, and his decision to step down from his beloved Starbucks will only fuel questions about a presidential run. He told the Times, “For some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our…

L’Informale very kindly chose to do an interview with me in which I addressed a number of questions. I just want to excerpt a brief portion of that interview to comment on it further. On the 14th of May, the American embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. At the main time, Hamas, tried…

The left claims to love education. Whenever it takes over, it expands the educational system because it’s a convenient way to indoctrinate a new generation. But what happens when it runs out of money? Then it runs out of teachers and professors. That’s what we’re seeing in Venezuela where public education has imploded as inflation…

#COEXIST Arab assailants attacked a German Jewish teenager who was listening to Israeli music on his mobile phone on Saturday at the Zoologischer Garten train station in western Berlin. The attackers cursed the teen, identified only as a 17-year-old Berlin native called Jonathan, and threatened to kill him. When his non-Jewish friends came to his…

The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision was less of a ruling on the First Amendment than on the left’s growing hostility to the First Amendment. The decision isn’t truly meaningful. And it doesn’t make anyone happy. Except the owner of the cake shop. Instead the Supreme Court found a fairly broad consensus, not around the…

Hillary Clinton never broke a single glass ceiling in any kind of office. She wasn’t the first female secretary of state or senator (though her people tried to make it seem that way). And she wasn’t even the only leftist female presidential candidate the year that she was running. Or the only one venally corrupt…

Anti-Semites like to claim that they’re really anti-Zionists. But Tamika Mallory’s attempt to shed her anti-Semitic skin by bashing Israel has been a particularly awkward farce. The Women’s March leader ran into controversy palling around with Louis Farrakhan. Instead of condemning Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, Mallory went on the offensive by getting the ADL allegedly fired from…