by Matthew Friedman | Mar 8, 2022 | Commentary
Did Russian boys grow up during the Cold War dreaming of someday being Blofeld? I can imagine a pubescent Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin emerging from the darkness of a 1965 screening of Thunderball at the Leningrad Odeon Theater, rubbing his hands together gleefully,...
by Matthew Friedman | Feb 27, 2022 | Commentary
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is sending negotiators to meet with a Russian delegation at a site on the banks of the Pripyat River, near the Belarusian border. “I do not really believe in the outcome of this meeting,” Zelensky said, “but let them try so...
by Matthew Friedman | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Politics
They came in their thousands – by the tens of thousands, if you believe them – belching diesel fumes and blasting air horns. The Freedom Convoy of big tractor-trailer rigs, semis, and private pickup trucks and vans converged on the Canadian capital of Ottawa from...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 27, 2022 | Commentary, Jewish Life
I spent much of the day rereading Art Spiegelman’s brilliant graphic novel Maus. It felt like the right thing to do after the Mcminn County, TN schoolboard voted unanimously to remove it from the eighth-grade curriculum. “There is some rough, objectionable language in...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 23, 2022 | Commentary, Jewish Life
President Biden was absolutely clear in his comments following the hostage-taking incident at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, TX last weekend. “We will stand against anti-Semitism and against the rise of extremism in this country,” he said. “That is who we...
