Analysis
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Elizabeth Rosner CNN, July 13, 2024 “I often feel unable to manage my conflicting feelings about forgiveness when it comes to overt cruelty.” Sometime in late April, the Jewish cemetery in upstate New York where both of my parents are buried was vandalized. Close to 100 gravestones, almost all with Hebrew lettering on one or both sides, […]
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David Mamet Jewish Journal, July 3, 2024 “The Diaspora meme; “I’m Jewish, but I’m not that Jewish,” has, again, been corrected by a mob’s screaming, “Yes. You are.”” Marilyn Monroe was one of the screen’s great clowns. Her schtick, though tagged as sexual or provocative was actually an affectionate send-up of sexuality. Woody’s screen […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 11, 2024 “… as Owens has again taught us, not everyone who decries the dead hand of liberal groupthink is a principled dissenter or honest observer. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are always the last refuge of media con artists.” There is a good argument to be made that the […]
Michael Gross WSJ, July 11, 2024 “Passive and morally confused leaders have tacitly encouraged the threats of violence against Jewish students. By failing to oppose antisemitism from the outset, they’ve fostered the creation of a de facto no-go zone for Jews.” Will the antisemitism at Columbia University ever end? That was the question after […]
Tuesday, July 16th 2024
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 15, 2024 “… when the entire focus of the arguments of one end of the political spectrum is based on treating opponents as illegitimate and their leader as the second coming of Adolf Hitler—as the Democrats have treated Trump–it isn’t good enough to respond to an act of violence with […]
Walter Russel Mead WSJ, July 14, 2024 “Saturday’s events made America more Jacksonian and gave Mr. Trump an unbreakable hold on Jacksonian America.” Donald Trump was only glancingly wounded on Saturday, but the effects of the attack and of his courageous response will be profound. His chance of victory substantially increased, and the movement he […]
David Samuels Tablet, July 15, 2024 “By joining his chi to Trump’s, Musk has created a double helix out of the two most powerful human memes on Earth.” The photograph of a bloodied former President Trump defiantly pumping his fist in the air beneath the American flag as his Secret Service minders struggle to protect […]
Allysia Finley WSJ, July 14, 2024 “Like Mr. Biden, Barack Obama campaigned on unifying a divided nation. His policies and condescension toward the hoi polloi did the opposite.” “I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” Joe Biden declared in a Nov. 7, 2020, victory speech. “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide […]
Monday, July 15th 2024 / Monday, July 15th 2024
Victor Davis Hanson X, July 14, 2024 “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” If we were leftists and we were to use […]
Byron York Washington Examiner, July 14, 2024 “I wanted to keep speaking — I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,” Trump said with a little laugh. “It’s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens.” TRUMP: ‘I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO […]
Roger Kimball The Spectator, July 14, 2024 “Is it any wonder that the “woke” forces arrayed against Trump have moved on to something more kinetic?” Last week at a fundraiser, Joe Biden said that it was time to get beyond his poor performance at his June 27 debate with Donald Trump. Now, said Biden, “it’s […]
Editorial Board WSJ, July 14, 2023 “… leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won’t end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions.” The assassination attempt […]
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