Heterodoxy

October 2026:This alliance between capital and state is not free-market capitalism: it is economic fascism.

October 2026:October 7 did not happen in a vacuum because it is the latest execution of a 2,000-year recursive loop of systemic Arab hatred.

September 2026:The contemporary crusade against the Jewish State cannot be dismantled by the traditional tools of academic debate or diplomatic compromise, for it does not exist within the realm of rational geopolitics.

September 2026:Trauma is unimpressed by chronology. It does not care that you have moved on. It has its own calendar.

September 2026:The first step toward saying “Hineni” is simply refusing to look away.

September 2026:I didn’t create “I’m That Jew” to defend Jewish identity. I created it to own it.

September 2026:Hineni isn’t necessarily saying, “I know exactly what to do.” It’s saying, “I can’t pretend this isn’t my problem anymore.”

September 2026:“Pay attention,” a voice whispered in my head. “Your vulnerability is not a weakness. It’s a superpower.”

September 2026:The world had shifted, and the Jewish people would need more than sympathy. We would need leadership, structure, courage, and people willing to stand in the gap.

September 2026:As Zionists, we learn from the past, keep building and being rebuilt in the present, while never, ever, stopping to dream about an even better future.

September 2026:We Jews are well trained in social exclusion.

September 2026:I discovered I am here for a bigger purpose than my own little life: to help other Jews find the terminology to describe what they already know in their bones.

September 2026:Finding it hard to remain morally disciplined while fighting something morally obscene, I spoke up, hoping it would get easier with time.

September 2026:Alongside the rising tide of Jew-hatred on campus, there has also been an extraordinary resurgence of Jewish pride.

September 2026:What we bring into the world is not only who we are, but what we have survived.

September 2026:Anti-Semitism does not operate only through the hatred of Jews. It operates at the level of perception. It introduces instability at the level of knowledge itself.

September 2026:When I was at my very lowest, Am Yisrael stood up for me. And so now, I stand up for them.

September 2026:My journey as a survivor taught me that healing is not a straight line. Sometimes healing looks like returning to the hardest moments of your life. Sometimes it looks like standing beside others in their darkest moments.

September 2026:Rather than responding with horror, many seemed intent on justifying or even glorifying the massacre.

September 2026:If human dignity is universal, then it cannot depend on the nationality, religion, or ethnicity of the victim. Principles cease to be principles the moment they become conditional.

September 2026:“Hineni” is not a ritual, but a reminder of who we are. Every time we say it, that response becomes a little more deeply woven into our lives. Wherever we are needed, we will be there.

September 2026:I knew, as so many Jews before me had known, that there are moments in Jewish history that demand you show up. This was one of those moments.

September 2026:Every time I choose to stand beside another victim and remind the world that the impact of terrorism lasts long after the headlines fade, I find myself answering the same call.

September 2026:While October 7 changed my understanding of trauma, October 8 changed my understanding of people.

September 2026:I could not fathom how so many seemingly educated people could watch the murder, rape, and kidnapping of civilians and respond not with horror, but with glee.

September 2026:If America were to develop a reverence for 9/11 which mirrored Jews’ remembrance of the destructions of the Temples, America could begin turning towards its redemption.

August 2026:You’ve heard the chant: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Almost no one asks the question that, to me, functions as a shibboleth: why does it rhyme in English?

August 2026:If we are not willing to take election integrity seriously, we should expect hostile foreign powers to take our lack of election integrity very seriously.

August 2026:Why liberal democracy requires us to confront the one ideology we are forbidden to criticize.

August 2026:Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster, The Odyssey, has inspired legions of fans who never once gave a whit about ancient Greece and its contribution to Western culture. That’s a positive outcome if reviving the canon of classical literature is important to you. Humanities majors, rejoice! But the film also serves as an important object lesson for both […]

August 2026:On September 11, 2001, the world watched as nineteen men turned commercial airliners into weapons of mass murder. Nearly three thousand people died in the space of a few hours. The perpetrators left no ambiguity: they acted in the name of Islam, citing the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad as they struck what they saw as the heart of unbelief. For a brief, clarifying moment, the mask slipped. The ideology that had animated centuries of conquest, subjugation, and doctrinal absolutism stood exposed in the dust and fire of Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Here was Islam as a political system that commands its followers to fight until the religion of Allah reigns supreme.

July 2026:Participation in any Muslim organization therefore becomes the equivalent of participating in a communist organization—and can be banned.

July 2026:The United States was founded, as John Adams put it, “not as a Christian nation, but as a nation of Christians,” and a surprising number of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were trained ministers. I like to think of the Constitution as a libertarian document, but classical liberalism is an Enlightenment concept, and the Enlightenment is a direct descendent of the Christian world, where Judeo-Christian morality collided with Greek philosophy.

July 2026:If we cannot speak honestly about the doctrines, organizations, and demographic trends that challenge liberal democracy, then the Enlightenment project itself becomes a museum piece rather than a living organism.

July 2026:As children growing up, most of us enjoyed pretending to be someone else. I even remember in my childhood there was a rock song “The Great Pretender.” With maturity, those dreams disappeared. In recent years, however, pretense has become a frequently used tactic in politics. One of the most obvious techniques is the political version of “bait and switch,” in which a politician pretends to have one identity or ideology to get elected, whereupon (s)he reverts to their true views.

July 2026:The First Amendment protects the speech we hate from the state; civil society must reject it.

July 2026:This is the template for the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy for civilizational jihad against Western society, turning educational institutions into a weapon of war by shaping, producing and normalizing ideological positions that fit the agenda of conquering the West for Islam.

April 2026:Last October, Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, sponsored a public lecture: “Understanding Gaza.” I’ve been thinking about that lecture ever since. That’s way too long, wouldn’t you say? I’m hoping that by writing about it I can finally get the gobbledygook I heard out of my head.

April 2026:We have been conditioned to recognize bigotry by its costume. We are trained to look for the white hood, the jackboot, or the crude racial slur—the unvarnished, “low-status” hatred of a David Duke or a Nick Fuentes. Because these figures are social pariahs, we feel a sense of security in our ability to identify “the bad guys.”

March 2026:To collapse those distinctions, or to apply pressure exclusively to the side attempting to restrain violence, is not an act of principled neutrality. It is a form of moral asymmetry that shapes outcomes in predictable ways, granting strategic advantage to those least constrained by ethical considerations.

March 2026:It is a stance that has inadvertently provided cover for the explosion of anti-Semitism and the virulent bigotry we see today—leaving us defenseless against those who use free speech as a shield for dehumanization and the endorsement of violence.

March 2026:We are raising a generation in a country that can no longer disagree without trying to destroy someone.

February 2026:That leap works inside an art studio or a poetry reading, but it breaks when applied to the world around us.

February 2026:Over time, I realized I wasn’t teaching them how to win arguments. I was teaching them something far more important: intellectual humility—an appreciation for what they don’t know or can’t know.

February 2026:We must restore a fact-driven culture and embrace critical thinking, fostering the next Galileo rather than cancelling him.

March 2026:The dissemination of news from institutions to the public, once trustworthy, has transitioned into the biased rhetoric of those with platforms. The loss of objectivity in the media has evolved over centuries, with technological advancements in communications serving as their catalyst.

February 2026:I am a registered Democrat since I first voted in 1988—the only non-Democratic candidate I ever voted for was Michael Bloomberg’s first mayoral campaign, when he ran as a Republican in name only. Three election cycles I voted absentee for Democrats—from Israel, where I lived in the 2010s.

February 2026:Recalculating art, activism, and risk from inside the American theater.

February 2026:One of my sons suggested I write an essay about growing up in a communist country so Americans, including the current generation of American “democratic” socialists, can learn more about life behind the Iron Curtain, and perhaps would end up appreciating their own country more. I decided to give it a shot, and I ended up comparing my past life with my current American life.

February 2026:The musical “Slam Frank” ran briefly in 2025, but the way it distorts Anne Frank’s story has not received the scrutiny it deserves.

January 2026:There may be nothing more controversial in the United States today than the question of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcing America’s immigration laws. Those laws are pretty straightforward, calling for federal authorities to detain and deport anyone found in the country illegally; but those laws have fallen into disfavor in some circles, causing protests and riots, particularly in Minneapolis. 

January 2026:A wise Christian saying is that “The cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince people he doesn’t exist.” Something similar can be said of the modern Red-Green Alliance and its Marxist oppressor-oppressed framework. The greatest trick this alliance ever pulled was convincing the world that they were the oppressed.

January 2026:Minneapolis is on fire once again. In fact, the whole state of Minnesota is raw, angry, and frustrated; dry tinder just waiting for a spark.

August 2025:Then, as now, all these arguments combine “supersessionism,” the replacement of Judaism by Christianity as the true religion, with that of the ancient Jews by non-Jews, now, ironically “Palestinians.” The true purpose of these particular Pallywood screeds and images is to demonize Jews in the eyes of Christians, and irrevocably break the Judeo-Christian alliance at the heart of American support for Israel.

August 2025:We need more journalists, politicians, and scholars joining the fight against the global epidemic of “banal liberalism” generally and its unholy alliance with anti-Semitism specifically.

August 2025:You’re not being silenced for telling the truth, Mr. Stewart; you’re being silenced for only telling half of it. In his recent interview with Peter Beinart, Jon Stewart casts himself as a brave truth-teller under attack for daring to speak out: “People yell at me about what I say sometimes about Palestine and what’s going […]

July 2025:Islam glorifies not submission itself (as I think we assume), but the power to compel submission.

July 2025:The West is at an inflection point. Will it continue to submit, as Douglas Murray has put it, to a form of fascism that pretends to be a religion? Or will Zohran become the bridge too far—the Islamic zealot who forces the U.S. to finally say: Enough.

July 2025:L. E. Penny reveals how picturesque “Minnesota nice” Minnesota has been systematically conquered by Islamic elements.

July 2025:Jihad, a permanent Islamic institution, is intrinsically linked to enslavement, which explains the extensive and enduring nature of slavery in Muslim societies.

July 2025:How does an indigenous population returning to its ancient homeland become settler colonialism? And how do Jews, persecuted for 3,000 years, become genocidal oppressors?

July 2025:Hamas is made up of the same people, acting on the same colonizing and imperial motivations, who enslaved me and murdered 4 million of my black brothers and sisters.

July 2025:Islam may be history’s most prolific vehicle for cognitive disruption, as Muhammad’s followers only ever went forth to nations outside the Arabian Peninsula to plunder their wealth and force them to submit—yet we are obliged to refer to Islam as a “religion of peace.”

June 2025:Will Durant once wrote that civilization lives in the clearing, and there’s always a hungrier tribe still in the bush, waiting to conquer it. Durant warned that no great civilization is ever conquered from without until it first destroys itself from within. The image is compelling, but the conclusion it supports is wrong. Durant helped […]

May 2025:From Lindbergh to Fuentes, the phrase has always carried more than just patriotism.

May 2025:The division of American politics into two camps of political thought that are opposed to meaningful dialogue is not just unpatriotic, but a precursor to tyranny.

May 2025:Peter Wood argues anti-Semitism exists on the right, noting figures like Carlson, Rogan, Fuentes, and Tate who express or platform such views. While most conservatives reject it, it remains a potential threat.

March 2025:What drove students like Mahmoud Khalil was not a desire to preserve human life and pursue justice in its true sense, but by, in the words of CUAD, a desire to continue terrorizing the students and staff of Columbia “until Zionism ends,” which is to say until the Jewish people have once again been driven from their ancestral homeland.

January 2025:Dr. Kronenfeld argues that "woke" immorality and environmentalism are part of a depopulation plan. It claims that declining marriage rates, gender confusion, and promotion of career over family are tactics to reduce birth rates, referencing the Jaffe Memo and historical examples like ancient Rome.

January 2025:Van Wallach updates O’Sullivan’s First Law to reflect contemporary anti-Semitism, arguing that organizations not politically neutral or pro-Jewish will eventually become anti-Zionist (a euphemism for anti-Jewish). It cites examples like the ACLU, Ford Foundation, and Episcopal Church to illustrate this shift.

January 2025:Progressivism, like all totalitarian ideologies, rejects objective truth, goodness, and beauty, as these concepts limit power. True art transcends political agendas, embracing these timeless values.

January 2025:With the globalized intifada moving into stage II—destroy the West—the growing cultural boycott of Judeans will soon become a mere footnote in today’s Islamic crusade. What we can do is use this as an opportunity to show the parallels of culture and ideology, and how they need to be viewed together: one forms the basis […]

December 2024:Islamic jihadist terrorists continue to ravage Africa, with groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP killing civilians and soldiers in Chad and Nigeria. The violence has caused a humanitarian crisis, with millions of Christians displaced. The rise of Islamic militancy in the Sahel region has profound implications for Chad, particularly for its Christian population, who are targeted by Islamic militants.

December 2024:Melinda Roth, author of "Letter to the Protestors," proposes solutions to reclaim universities from anti-Semitism and hate speech.

November 2024:Trump confirmed that the country’s founding principles remain strong, regardless of a president’s personal style, ambition, or appeal to certain factions of the public.

September 2024:By placing too much stock in its “big tent” strategy and admitting undeniably anti-American actors to its inner-circle, the Democratic Party is incubating something worse than the Confederates.

September 2024:In addition to welcoming anti-Semites into the progressive party base, the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations is becoming normalized as mainstream policy. 

September 2024:Benjamin Marcus discusses the value of classical education, focusing on the opening of Emet Academy, a Jewish preparatory school in Manhattan. Emet Academy's curriculum emphasizes Western civilization, Jewish history, and a strong moral foundation, contrasting with the prevailing trends in modern education.

September 2024:The stakes are much higher in this new wave than when individuals dealt with the blowback. Reputational risk is enormous, through loss of donors and applicants at the university level, and customers, job applicants, and marketing partners for corporations.

September 2024:Freedom of speech is a fundamental American value. However, the abuse of freedom of speech to end freedom of speech and academic diversity is untenable.

August 2024:Willful blindness to the fact that the non-Muslim world is arguably more Islamic since 2001—not to mention October 7, 2023—is a crucial step on the way to willful headlessness.

August 2024:The fear of being labeled as “Islamophobic” has caused far too many people to avoid examining the problems that come with normalizing Sharia.

August 2024:Pakistan is in the news again with horrifyingly brutal murders of people over allegations of “blasphemy.” There are almost no Muslim objections to these atrocities because they are committed to advance the cause of Islam.

August 2024:Rutledge argues that Islam, as it is practiced, is incompatible with Western values, and that Sharia law, when implemented, creates segregated communities that operate outside the jurisdiction of Western law, and that these communities are often hotbeds for anti-Western sentiment. We can counter this threat by promoting Western values.

August 2024:Islam is a religion that insists on global adoption of its laws and customs, even in non-Islamic countries.

June 2024:We have terrorism masquerading as free speech; anti-Semitism is now a credential for the human rights community. New York’s governor has hopes of reinstituting the anti-mask law. It was repealed on account of the pandemic. It’s now once again necessary—this time to unmask violent anti-Semites who benefit from the anonymity of crowds and the darkness of night.

June 2024:For political Islam and any other kinds of destructive ideas to be an actual threat to the west, the West has to be in a place of decline and demoralization.

June 2024:The hijacking—nay, the occupation—of campuses by Hamas sympathizers has less to do with a conflict 5,000 miles away and more to do with dethroning America.

April 2024:Thanks in no small part to your weak response in October, the climate of antisemitism at Columbia has only worsened on your watch during the intervening six months.

April 2024:I am back in the times where you couldn’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper (and you had to open a newspaper to get your “political information” school credit) without hearing (or reading) “we, proud Soviet citizens of Jewish Ethnicity, thoroughly condemn the militarism and barbarity of the Zionist State.”

April 2024:The corollary, shared with all dictatorial societies of both Communist and Fascist persuasions, is to subordinate the artist’s individuality to the collectivity. In today’s increasingly anti-democratic, anti-individualistic environment, artistic autonomy and freedom are being undermined by tendentious ideology.

April 2024:It is profoundly uninspiring to realize that in the United States we have willfully, yes willfully, jettisoned our individualism in favor of group identity. The notion that marginalized groups must think alike is detrimental to the very groups.

April 2024:Right now, your adolescent is fed that their hair color, their nose and lip shapes, their body shape, the way they look, the way they dance, the way they dress is more important than their character, than how they treat people and how they treat themselves.

April 2024:Ben Poser recounts a disturbing incident from his youth which richly and outrageously illustrates the literary and academic left’s conquest by Islam.

March 2024:Sadly for the same Western media which constantly blame Israel for its enemies’ depravity, the post-9/11 love affair with the “greater” and “personal” jihad is supported by neither the Islamic sources nor historical fact.

March 2024:The worldwide Jewish community is doing all it can to combat anti-Semitism, right? It’s comforting to believe that. It means you can carry on with your day-to-day life, certain in the knowledge our leadership is working flat out on your behalf.

February 2024:Liberated Ethnic Studies activists are well connected, highly organized, and deeply committed to establishing a radical pedagogy that seeks to undermine the liberal order by using our public school system as a vehicle to normalize their ideology.

February 2024:I walked into the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) on Malcolm X Boulevard to attend a fundraising gala where three black Muslims—two radical imams and a Boston city councilor—were scheduled to appear. Frankly, I was more than a little bit nervous.

November 2023:For centuries this phrase has been used against us. But now many of us state it proudly, with all the pride Herzl envisioned. And those Jews who haven't yet gotten there should now understand the tremendous gift it is to finally define ourselves, proudly.

November 2023:The language of Jihad is confined to the spreading of terror. It is not an invitation to a debate or civil discourse of any kind. It forsakes the presentation of ideas in favor of mob veto, the silence of intimidation.