Published in The Detroit News Since the 1960s, the progressive wing of the Left has crusaded for a “colorblind” society in addition to the adulation of minorities. Alas, these two aims are — quite obviously — contradictory. Americans will never see beyond the reality of diversity if they are being incessantly lectured that diversity will and should…
Author: Jonathan Bronitsky
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Conservatives are Wrong About Academia [DETROIT NEWS] The right-leaning simply aren't interested in teaching as a career.
Published in The Detroit News At the Michigan Republican Party’s state convention on August 23, I was struck that Common Core garnered far more attention than any other social issue like abortion, gay marriage or gun rights. One candidate for regent of the University of Michigan was rewarded with rapturous applause after he slammed the…
Blame the EU First [DAILY CALLER] The postwar European project created a society devoid of incentives for Muslims to integrate.
Published on The Daily Caller The discovery that more than 2,000 European Muslims are fighting for the Islamic State has reignited a familiar, feverish chorus that both reprimands European Muslims for refusing to integrate and rebukes European governments for failing to integrate their Muslim citizens. Alas, incriminations are rarely accompanied by elucidations, and when they…
Book Review: “Anti-Judaism,” by David Nirenberg [KEY REPORTER] The presence of Jews was rarely needed for non-Jews to fixate on Judaism.
Published on The Key Reporter Fear that Judaism was usurping culture reached an unprecedented height during the Renaissance, a period in which Jews were essentially absent from Western Europe. The revolutionary legislators of the doomed National Assembly obsessively deliberated over the citizenship status of Jews, who were virtually nonexistent in late-18th century France. And of…
Crescent Over the Thames [WAR ON THE ROCKS] British Muslim radicalization truly began during the Bosnian War.
Published on War on the Rocks Trafalgar Square, central London. More than 3,000 people are in attendance at the “Rally for Islam.” A notorious firebrand near Nelson’s Column calls for jihad against Britain. Thunderous cheers roll through the crowd and echo ominously toward Whitehall. Placards demand the assassination of the British prime minster and other…
The British Connection [NRO] The willingness of British Muslims to wage jihad abroad began in earnest at least 20 years ago.
Published on National Review Online For many, the British accent of the Islamist who executed American journalist James Foley was almost as shocking as the barbaric murder itself. In the days that follow, critics of American foreign policy will assert that the Islamic State’s audacious act was merely a symptom of “blowback,” the unintended consequence…
Europe’s Projection Problem [DAILY CALLER] Envy and self-loathing stir Europe's anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism.
Published on The Daily Caller Another week, another wave of demonstrations throughout Europe protesting Israeli “war crimes” in the Gaza Strip. And yet the outpouring continues to astonish many American defenders of the Jewish state. Left with no other explanation, they interpret the vehement and recurrent criticism of Israel to be evidence of a subtle,…
The Brooklyn Burkeans [NATIONAL AFFAIRS] The history of neoconservatism involves decades of intellectual evolution beginning well before the heady 1960s.
Published in National Affairs The meaning, legacy, and future of neoconservatism are often hotly contested subjects. But the history of neoconservatism — particularly its early history — has long been deemed largely settled territory. According to the prevailing narrative, members of the first generation of neoconservatives — perhaps the most famous among them being Irving…
Jesse Jackson’s Futile Feud With Oxbridge [NRO] For the better part of the past millennium, two of the world's best universities have thrived without affirmative action.
Published on National Review Online The 2013 film Admission is a comedy-drama about the professional and romantic trials of Portia Nathan (Tina Fey), an intrepid Princeton University admissions officer. At one point in the movie, Helen (Sonya Walger), an Englishwoman and eminent Virginia Woolf scholar from the University of Cambridge, takes a dig at Portia:…
Tempering the Conservative Outrage at Michigan State [WEEKLY STANDARD] Let radical professors hang themselves with their own rope.
Published on The Weekly Standard Hardly an academic semester goes by without a high-profile opportunity arising for the right to address pervasive, perennial anti-conservative animus on the American college campus. And hardly an academic semester goes by without the right, reflexively blinded by righteous indignation, blowing an opportunity to do so. Too often, conservatives, in a…