by Matthew Friedman | Sep 25, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
On this day eighty years ago, with no possibility of escape and death in a Nazi concentration camp a near-certainty, Walter Benjamin took a fatal overdose of morphine. He stood on the frontiers of Europe on the night of 25 September 1940 facing the inevitability of...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 13, 2020 | Commentary
If you know one thing about Jessica Krug, it is that she is a white woman who passed herself off as a person of color. If you know two things about her, it is that she is a Jewish woman who passed herself off as a person of color. The first detail is relevant because,...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 30, 2020 | Commentary
This image will surely be an indelible icon of our historical moment: A white teenager strolls nonchalantly along the streets of Kenosha, with an assault rifle in his right hand, casually waving at police shortly after he jas murdered two people protesting the...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 17, 2020 | Commentary, Essays, Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate landed in social media with curious effect. Longtime Democrats, centrist liberals, and that fuzzy sliver of moderates who occupy the narrow space between the Democratic Party’s...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 30, 2020 | Essays
A right-wing extremist fired ten shots into a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Austin last weekend, killing Garrett Foster. The incident is eerily reminiscent of the El Paso shooting last year, the Tree of Life Massacre in Pittsburgh and, more than...
