by Matthew Friedman | Nov 17, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
Writing in the Washington Post this week, Olivier Knox left no doubt that the left wing of the Democratic Party will be held responsible for the party’s loss of Congress in the 2022 midterm election and even – whispered in sotto voce – the return of the Great Satan...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 8, 2021 | Essays, Politics
The man with the megaphone was getting a response. Standing in front of the Wells Fargo Bank at the corner of Broad and Bank in Newark – a Wachovia branch until the subprime mortgage crisis at the beginning of the Great Recession – he was calling out to everyone in...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 3, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
A white man wearing a Stars and Stripes bandana threw a Molotov cocktail into the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Austin, TX on Wednesday, and then casually walked away. The bomb did not ignite, and damage was minor. You might not have heard about the...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 19, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Met Gala dress blew-up the Internet last week. For a brief moment, the social- and conventional-media commentariat on the right and the left were able to agree on a matter of critical political import: The congresswoman’s Aurora...
by Matthew Friedman | May 2, 2021 | Commentary, Jewish Life, Politics
I learned this week that Senator Elizabeth Warren is a “vicious” antisemite. The news was shocking. I have had my differences with the senator and her particular brand of progressivism in the past, but I never imagined that she would promote an atavistic “Jew-hate”...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 17, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
At noon on Wednesday, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will take the oath of office on the Capitol steps and become the 46th president of the United States. Millions of Americans will breathe a sigh of relief that four years of division, violence, and injustice perpetrated...