by Matthew Friedman | Mar 1, 2020 | Essays, History
The opening scene of Hunters, the new series from Amazon Prime starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman as members of an intrepid band of American Nazi hunters, tells you everything that you need to know about the show: The American Undersecretary of State Biff Simpson...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 18, 2020 | Essays
If the war between the supporters of Democratic Party candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders this week demonstrated anything, it is that politics is not rational. However, the fatal weakness of the American left is that we believe otherwise. Our tragic...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 1, 2020 | Commentary
Do you remember when 2016 was “the worst year ever,” and we looked forward to the possibilities offered by 2017? Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, and Carrie Fisher all died in 2016, in what seemed like quick succession. It was an incalculable loss...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 31, 2019 | Essays
I had come to a multiplex in the Boston suburbs on Christmas morning expecting to enjoy a movie alone, or at very least in the company of only a handful of non-Christian refugees from the barrage of Yuletide cheer. I was wrong; the screening room was packed with...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 23, 2019 | Essays
“And now, Matthew will come up and tell us about Chanukah,” Miss Shultz said. “It’s the Jewish Christmas.” I froze in my chair, looking straight ahead at my teacher’s expectant smile. I felt the eyes of my second-grade classmates boring into me. It was one of those...
