Entries by Jose Nino

End of an Era: Norman Podhoretz and the Much-to-be-Hoped-for-Decline of Neoconservative Power

The neoocns captured George W. Bush and his administration, resulting in U.S. involvement in wars throughout the Middle East. Norman Podhoretz, the pugnacious Jewish intellectual who transformed Commentary magazine into the engine room of neoconservatism and spent half a century waging ideological warfare against enemies foreign and domestic, died December 16, 2025, at age 95. […]

More Signs That America’s Youth Are Breaking with Israel

For decades, support for Israel functioned as one of Washington’s few unchallenged orthodoxies. That consensus is now cracking, and the fracture line runs straight through the American youth electorate. The latest findings from the Yale Youth Poll confirm that a generational realignment is well underway, one that cuts across party lines and increasingly places Israel […]

The October 7 Shock Is Driving Some Jews to Trump.

Just as the upheavals of the 1960s sent led to neoconservatism among a significant number of Jews, the shock of October 7 has once again opened a path rightward—this time toward sitting President Donald Trump. Bill Ackman, billionaire hedge fund CEO and Harvard alumnus, became the most visible example. Starting November 2023, Ackman became obsessed […]

Jeffrey Epstein’s Secret War Against Iran

Inside the emails that reveal Epstein’s covert crusade against Iran. On the morning of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The infamous JEwish financier and convicted sex offender was transported in cardiac arrest to New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead […]