Published in The Weekly Standard A memorable bumper sticker from my childhood: “If God isn’t a Penn State fan, then why is the sky blue and white?” For me, growing up in central Pennsylvania, Penn State football was the universe while the team’s head coach, Joe Paterno, was the center around which it rotated. His likeness…
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It’s Time to Make Washington Part of America Again [FOX NEWS] DC must be comprised of people representing the entirety of our diverse nation.
Published on Fox News For perhaps the first time ever, it’s not necessarily “cool” in DC to have grown up in a big city and attended an elite college or university. This is one of the more important, yet subtle, developments for our republic resulting from Trump’s victory. And it’s a positive one that should…
Activists Go Head-to-Head at George Mason University [TABLET] Pro-Israel organizations have the grit to fight back.
Published on Tablet Over the weekend, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which coordinates more than 160 chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), held its sixth annual conference just outside the nation’s capital at George Mason University (GMU), Virginia’s largest public research university. The conference was hosted by George Mason University Students Against…
Lest We Forget [WEEKLY STANDARD] It's time to consider the merit of immoral memorials.
Published in The Weekly Standard Sherrod Brown was one of nine senators who addressed a luncheon on May 25 celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month. He spent the majority of his time at the podium, not surprisingly and not unlike most of his colleagues, extolling the American Jewish community for its contributions to the civil rights movement…
Flint and the Myth of Environmental Racism [WEEKLY STANDARD] It was inattentive bureaucracy, not some pervasive and malignant power, that was to blame for bad water.
Published in The Weekly Standard In 1989, a small videogame company called Maxis released SimCity, a city-building simulation, inaugurating what would become one of the best-selling computer game series of all time. SimCity’s aim was straightforward: As “mayor,” the player was challenged with designing and managing a metropolis. In addition to this open-ended mode, there were…
Jewish Opposition to Guns is Suicidal [DAILY CALLER] American Jewry’s hostility toward guns is irrational and hypocritical.
Published on The Daily Caller Are Jews obligated to do something special when they visit Berlin? I was recently there for a friend’s wedding. Even though it wasn’t my first time in the German capital, I made it a point to again pop into the Neue Synagoge and stroll around the Memorial to the Murdered…
My ADL Problem [TABLET] What exactly is the famed organization fighting, and for whom is it fighting?
Published on Tablet I’m conservative by most measures, and I’ve long known that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is markedly progressive on most policy issues. But I wasn’t looking for a brawl. I was simply searching for friendship. Relatively new to the Detroit metropolitan area, I was hoping to become more involved in the Jewish community and…
‘Glee’ and the Balkanization of the Left [DAILY CALLER] The show rammed progressivism down its audience’s throat, and now nobody’s watching.
Published on The Daily Caller Interested in an exemplification of the identity crisis that’s tearing American liberalism into disjointed bits? Look no further than Fox’s (once popular) television show about high school misfits — pardon me, courageous “nonconformists” — united by song and dance: Glee, which recently entered its sixth and, revealingly, final season. The…