As someone who has moved twice to seek fellowship and a sense of safety in a country hostile to people on the right, I can totally relate to the people described in the article below, except that the people discussed here are serious Christians—true believers. They’re not just “cultural Christians” like me —i.e., someone who […]
Israel falling apart, by Philip Weiss, an American Jew who is on the left, but unlike most Jewish liberals, he deplores Israel’s conduct toward the Palestinians. I respect his opinions and have commented on his work many times. Several left-wing voices have said lately that Israel is falling apart. The society is torn over the war, […]
Donald Trump, Man of Destiny … The scene on Saturday night in Pennsylvania was the ultimate confirmation of [Trump’s] status as a man of destiny, a character out of Hegel or Thomas Carlyle or some other verbose 19th-century philosopher of history, a figure touched by the gods of fortune in a way that transcends the […]
[Nothing terrifies Jews more than a large crowd raising their arms and chanting.] Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat [she seems to be a favorite of HuffPo] on Monday addressed the moment at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee when Republicans chanted the word “fight” soon after GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump walked into the auditorium. The chant […]
In my previous blog I mentioned the rhetoric on the left that provided a context for the assassination attempt. An article by Jonathan Turley in The Hill has some examples, from BIden and prominent figures in the left media. The assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump left a nation stunned. But the most shocking aspect was that […]
