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,...
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...
