"This small liberal arts college used to be a haven for artistic misfits and free thinkers. Now it has been taken over by authoritarian politicians. Are these two things the same?"

My somewhat hot take on this is that Bari has been a pretty transparent neoconservative for her entire career. Some people wanted to fool themselves about Bari's politics and she was shrewd not to correct them, but I don't think she was ever hiding her views.

Tragically mistaken suggests they now understand it was a mistake. I am not sure they do. They could not have been under any illusion about which side of the hyphen in "Judeo-Christian" carried more weight. They fear pluralistic liberal democracy more than they do Christian nationalism.

I watched "Cover-Up" at Film Forum today. Laura Poitras does a good job honoring the heroic early decades of Sy Hersh's career. She also highlights the behavior patterns that might have led to his disastrous turn over the 15 years. I'm glad he's on camera basically saying he was duped by Assad.

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

“Weiss has demonstrated, repeatedly, that her professed commitment to free speech and heterodox thought is mostly nonexistent once money, power, or her own political obsessions become part of the equation”, Ross Barkan writes”. She now barely tolerates opposition to Trump” nymag.com/intelligence...

All the conductor will do is get on the PA system and ask if there is a police officer on board. If not, they will radio for help. They are not first responders and should not be expected to fill that role.

Agreed, but certain expectations do need to be adjusted. Very few college students today went through elementary and high school with blue book exams. Expectations of penmanship, for example, would not be fair.

The Biden theory of everything was that talking about anything from the Trump Administration would only make it harder for the country to move past it & get back to normal. It could not have failed more dramatically.

If Ben Rhodes had said anything like this in 2015, there would have been a full on meltdown by pro-Israelists.

What's remarkable about this scenario suggested by the Vice President of the United States is that it's entirely fictional. No one in the United States has had to apologize for being white. Not even Robin DiAngelo's exercises, which helped corporate America avoid a reckoning in 2020, were so crude.

Candace Owens is a charlatan & a conspiracist. So is Tucker Carlson. But u know what? So is Donald Trump. And bcuz of his position, Trump is a much bigger threat. So it’s not courageous for voices on the right to condemn Owens & Carlson but still support Trump. It’s cowardly. And hypocritical.

A sobering corrective of some of the more optimistic readings of Satmar's outreach to Mamdani. The Haredi street is moving further and further right—notwithstanding any pragmatism from rabbinical or community leaders.

There is perhaps no greater example of "Leopards eating faces" than all of the right-wing Jews resigning from the Heritage Foundation because they've discovered that right-wing nationalist politics is not ultimately good for the Jews. www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

I don't care for the fixation on the Harper's letter. Some people who signed it, like Nadine Strassen and Zephyr Teachout, were sincere. Others, like Bari Weiss, were frauds. Call out the frauds.

One must remember that Bari does not have a minute of real journalism experience. She came up through opinion pages before founding a successful blog. Her "concerns" are professionally worthless.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Look, there could be a perfectly innocent explanation for this. The problem is that given who is minding the CBS News store there is every reason to suspect something more nefarious.

I am actually almost speechless. And the illustration...

I hope you are right, but I wouldn't bet on it. I am not sure why anyone would be this certain given that the GOP has a supermajority on the Supreme Court that will protect the corrupt gains of the Trump clan and deny efforts at redress, which Democrats will invariably respect.

The anatomy of a BS story: No evidence Mamdani is seriously considering Bowman for schools chancellor, but somehow his posts are supposed to be Mamdani's problem.

It's honestly infuriating that Cat Almonte Da Costa had to resign over comments she made as a teenager.

Jewish Currents should do a story about how The Free Press turned their nice liberal Reform Jewish parents into neocons. "If only we had taken them to Encampment Seders more often in their near-retirement they wouldn't believe all the lies."

I hope the ADL will show the same charity to Mamdani aides who wrote dumb tweets as teenagers as they did to Fred Malek, who as an adult compiled a list of Jews working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Richard Nixon.

I would go further and say that if you have ever used "Zionism" to mean "aspirational call for Jewish self-determination" and gotten frustrated when people see Zionism as racist dispossession, you should understand why a Palestinian might feel the same about "Intifada." And vice versa.

As far as I know, no person claiming military history has been discriminated against in the academy has offered to endow a chair in military history and been turned down by a History Department.

The Free Press, whose mission like Tablet's a decade ago is to turn liberal Jews into neoconservatives, certainly knows its audience.

It's good to be reminded that there is a high-status version of "the immigrants took your jobs" and it's a basic re-run of the right-wing campaign against affirmative action, despite there being no more AA. The presence of people of color in a profession is now evidence of "reverse discrimination."

Your average liberal and leftist does not understand how much Republicananti environmentalism is orc logic. The destruction and despoliation of the commons just because they can. The destruction of beauty because they want to prove that they don’t care about it and because it hurts people they hate.

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

Oh, you mean TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet who was interviewed by the NYTimes’s Ross Douthat THIS WEEK where he talked about how much he cares about fact-based, non-conspiratorial media and Ross didn’t challenge him at all on that assertion?

A lot of my Jewish friends on the left assume that Stephen Miller will obviously be hoisted on his own petard. But I'm more worried about the durability of a "Judeo-Christian" framework of belonging in the United States and what that means for us "ungrateful" Jews who reject that bargain.

A political scientist was showing me TT job postings in her subfield. I'll just say there was a second page.

That Bari Weiss town hall was built to pull the Charlie Kirk discourse away from the far right ZOG theories and back to blaming the left for being violent and doing evil posts after his death and Donald Trump woke up today and dismantled that project in one post

Happy to say my first academic conference paper presentation went very well!

This is one hellish weekend news cycle.

Heartened by the support for Jewish communities expressed by governments throughout the world. The self-interested resentment expressed by Israeli officials does not represent all of us.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

Oh God

Thinking of friends and colleagues at Brown. Please stay safe.

1,165 copies. Might as well have been published by Brill.

Sundance lineup just dropped and there is a documentary about Fergie Chambers.

"No matter how the specifics play out, it’s clear that the ADL’s efforts to appease Trump and MAGA have backfired—failing to pacify the right, while further alienating liberals."

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

My decision to switch to the FT keeps looking better.

Why would the Democratic governor of New York object to a video that could've been scripted by the ACLU?

This is only a short clip, but I have no issue with the President of Israel complaining about Mamdani's "contempt for...Israel" (whatever that means). As long as he doesn't baselessly assert that the Mayor-elect is hostile to Jewish New Yorkers and further fan the flames of fear.

Remember, when anyone asks some version of “but where are the leaders? who could lead a proper movement or government?” Whether it be Iran or Palestine or any other repressive or authoritarian regime, the answer is almost always, “in prison.”

First read when the semester ends.