by Henry Oliner | Dec 13, 2023 | Anti Semitism
From a review of The Identity Trap in Commentary Magazine: The identity synthesis has come to exert tremendous influence over public life in a remarkably short span of time. Its illiberal premises and principles are exacerbated by the sheer intolerance of its methods....
by Henry Oliner | May 18, 2023 | Anti Semitism
From Commentary Magazine, Campus Diversity Is Campus Jew-Hatred by Seth Mandel: By every metric, American Jewish campus life is a shadow of what it once was. The City University of New York is losing the last two Jewish members of its 80-member senior leadership...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 19, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
From the editors of Commentary, Why We Must Stop the Great Unraveling: Social-justice mobs have taken aim at freedom of expression, inventing new heresies daily and ruining the lives of those who unwittingly give voice to them. Forced confessions and language...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 18, 2019 | Anti Semitism, Politics, Progressivism
From the March Commentary, Hate Crime Hoaxes and Why They Happen by Wilfred Reilly: It is a tragic truth of human history that fake hate crimes have, on more than one occasion, been the precursor to real atrocities. The best-known example is probably the “blood libel”...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 18, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From the April Commentary, Licensed to Ilhan by John Podhoretz: If what Ilhan Omar says she believes about the Jews were true, she would be sitting in a Twin Cities living room in deserved obscurity, left to rot there by the very conspiracy she claims is so powerful....