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 | 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 | Jun 21, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
This one is going to sink him. This broadside hit below the waterline, and Trump going down! Reviewing The Room Where It Happened, due out Tuesday, The Guardian’s Lloyd Green opines “John Bolton’s near-600-page tome is the most damning written account by a Trump...
by Matthew Friedman | Jun 14, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
It was sometime between the night of May 28, when the 3rd Precinct station went up in flames in Minneapolis, and the police assault with tear-gas and truncheons on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square in Washington four days later that I began to see the posts and...