To remember Emanuel Celler only as the congressman behind landmark immigration reform is to miss the wider program he pursued for much of his career. The Jewish congressman was a forceful proponent of foreign intervention, international institutions, refugee admissions, and a more deeply entrenched American commitment to the State of Israel. Those commitments stood behind...

I had a brief experience with a fraternity at Cornell University. I was a senior in high school. I stayed in a frat for a weekend with a former high school classmate. His “brothers” dragged me off a couch where I was sleeping and pinned me to the floor. They yanked up my shirt and...

We are on a path to more war. Trump could (and should) have declared victory and simply walked away from Iran, but that would have cast him as ‘a loser’ (a prospect that he cannot tolerate). But secondly, he is — for whatever reason — in thrall to Netanyahu and Israel. Tucker Carlson in August...

Agri-business corporations have the money, and they have rigged the situation against individual farmers and ranchers. Nothing can be done about the real problems, because the political system is owned by the big money. Money would have to come out of politics, the franchise would have to be reduced, and this would require a dictator...

What is the point of eliminating meaning from language? Who brought us “inclusive terminology” and for what purpose? Moreover, it is most certainly not inclusive. For example, it eliminates “mother” and “father” and replaces them with “parent” or “care giver.” What is inclusive about eliminating gender identification? “Mother” of “father” conveys far more information that...

As the midterm election draws near, a number of Republicans in tough races are distancing themselves from President Trump’s war. The war is unpopular because it has inflicted economic pain on the already-suffering American people. No, I am not talking about the Iran War. I am talking about President Trump’s tariff war. The Tax Foundation...

The traditional pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party, under the thumb of AIPAC and incapable of anything beyond the shallowest rhetorical empathy for Palestinians — if that — is clearly losing control. Its money and entrenched presence in Washington mean it will continue to be a problem for some time to come, but that wing...

Last week I published an article on the AI dangers that we faced. Although I was quite skeptical of the widespread warnings that super-intelligent AI systems might exterminate humanity, I saw considerable risks of a financial collapse of the AI industry, perhaps dragging down the entire American economy. A recent front-page story in the Wall...

Few world leaders understand the political utility of false-flag terrorism as well as Benjamin Netanyahu. Indeed, both his right-wing Likud Party and his Israel Defense Forces sprang forth from underground Zionist terror groups Irgun, Lehi and Haganah, which bombed and butchered Israel into existence in 1948. It was Likud’s founding father, Menachem Begin, who so...

Super-Man, Star-Man or Son of God? That’s the trilemma, the three possible ways to explain the greatest Donald in history. So which one was Don? I’m talking about Donald Bradman (1908-2001), the Australian über-batsman who dominated a major sport like no other athlete in history. His statistics are astonishing: in first-class cricket, he had a...

On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining the ideology as “an ethnonationalist political project.” Green Party leader Zach Polanski, who is Jewish, was immediately banned by the Israeli government from entering the nation after the motion was passed. As you might expect, Israel apologists are...

Benjamin Netanyahu has a talent for round numbers, and for knowing which audience gets which one. On the night of October 17, 2024, after Israeli soldiers stumbled on Yahya Sinwar in Rafah and killed him, the prime minister recorded two statements. In Hebrew, he called Sinwar the mass murderer “who murdered thousands of Israelis.” In...