by Matthew Friedman | Jan 10, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
The mob of maybe two thousand rioters, egged-on by the inflammatory rhetoric of their political leaders marched down the boulevards toward the government buildings with banners flying. They were going to take their country back from the leftist politicians who had...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 8, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
“This is the time to heal in America,” Joe Biden said in his victory speech Saturday night. “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.” This kind of rhetoric is perhaps...
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...