by Matthew Friedman | Dec 13, 2020 | Essays
The cashier smiled and wished me a “merry Christmas.” I scowled back. It was the week just after Thanksgiving, and the supermarket staff were clearing away the last of the orange-and-brown remnants of Turkey Day advertising décor and replacing it with red, green,...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 11, 2020 | Essays
November 11 is a day of reflection, sorrow and gratitude for me. At the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month every year, I stop whatever I am doing and mark two minutes of silence. If I am able, I watch the Remembrance Day commemoration at the...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 8, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
“This is the time to heal in America,” Joe Biden said in his victory speech Saturday night. “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.” This kind of rhetoric is perhaps...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 4, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
Whatever happens over the next days and weeks, as absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied, as the inevitable judicial recounts begin and, just as inevitably, they are challenged in lawsuits and blocked – and unblocked – by the courts the fact that, after the last...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 30, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
I have been reading comments in social media from many of my Gentile friends, colleagues, and comades aghast at the decision by Britain’s Labour Party to suspend former leader Jeremy Corbyn over comments about his handling of antisemitism in his party. In many cases,...
