I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To call someone “godless” was a way to make me curious, not a way to convince…
UPDATE 3/20/25: According to an AP report, President Trump will sign an executive order today formally directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the…
These mini-excerpts from Alex Karp's book aren't the insight of a tech titan so much as a recipe for 80s Hollywood dystopia.
Because they supposedly “get asked a lot,” Palantir recently tweeted excerpts from The Technological Republic , co-written by CEO Alex Karp, outlining the concept. We appreciate them boiling his book…
To help readers navigate this pivotal election, RD is collaborating with PRA’s research team to provide short, timely posts, with a special emphasis on far-right organizing and election interference…
Last Thursday, the federal government’s “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” released a massive 500-page report , which allegedly “details the Biden Administration’s radical efforts to punish…
Writing in The Atlantic on the disastrous February 28 meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Tom Nichols comments that Trump, “ambushed a loyal ally, presumably so that he…
Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency…
On March 23, I delivered a talk at the 4th annual Law and Antisemitism conference held at the UCLA School of Law. At a time when the Trump administration is kidnapping student critics of Israel in the…
Just another attempt to normalize the Right’s most virulent elements
The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it can at times look like they’re eating their own. But it’s nothing to celebrate. The storminess…
Hillel International posted a map that says everything they won't say out loud.
Last week, Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, celebrated Israel’s Independence Day ( Yom Ha’atzmaut ) by posting an illustrated map of Israel—which is not, in…