In a different world, “Free Palestine” might have been a noble rallying cry—a call for peace, justice, and human dignity for all people in the region. But we don’t live […]
The resort to violence has become the characteristic American response to a world that seems to many to lie beyond their control. Almost from the beginning, violence wrote itself into […]
A Hindu family in New Jersey celebrates the festival of Janmashtami (from ISKCON of New Jersey, 2020, reprinted by Migration Policy Institute)
Review by Paula Weiss We’re not out of the woods yet, but we never are. When Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I was reading this book, and wondering whether […]
Having been ill over the Christmas period my regular readers have experienced a bit of a gap in my articles here, for which I apologise. Four or five days can […]
Last night, we went to a restaurant and sat near a large extended Indian family of about 15, ranging from an elderly matriarch to a newborn handed from one doting […]
A friend today recalled a series of reflections I first posted on a social media platform a few years ago, around the time that statues were being pulled down by […]
Look at reactions to Trump, Musk and Kamala and you can see that this is essentially about the personality disorders of the ruling class. In the Poe short story The […]
This relatively short, straightforward book fills a yawning gap in the J6 reportage. Who were the women? The dominant Deep State/media narrative is that white supremacist men, instigated by Donald […]
A month ago, a football player whose name I’d never heard before crashed into the ongoing culture wars when he gave a passionate commencement speech at a small Catholic college […]