The Aftershock

October 7 was a shock in the scale, surprise, and the sheer brutality of the attack. The second shock was the enormous outpouring of support for Hamas and the Palestinians in Russia, European cities and even more disturbing, the colleges and universities in this...

Cancelling Cancel Culture

I confess to a strong sense of schadenfreude at seeing the social justice warriors have their main weapon turned on them.  Big donors are withholding money from universities who tolerate real hate, not just hate speech, and not just the crocodile tears, virtue...

History Moves On

From Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch – Left Behind by History- probably firewalled and I highly recommend a subscriptiion. The Palestinian people have legitimate grievances, and I myself have tried my very best to give a damn about them. But you only get to...

When Woke Broke

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”- Voltaire When Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery found the death camps in Germany, they ordered crews to film the piles of bodies and emaciated survivors, fearing otherwise no one would...

Marxian Anti-Semitism

From The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism by Barton Swaim in The Wall Street Journal, 10/13/23: That anti-Israel protests erupted on elite campuses this week—not after the accidental killing of a Palestinian demonstrator but after the systematic murder of at...