William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal. 5 Books, including: Marriage and Caste in America

Brooklyn New York
Joined September 2011
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Replying to @ProfDBernstein
This guy nails it:
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Maybe it's time for a rebrand. "Humanities" no longer seems like the right word.
Massive survey of grad students finds: "Humanities PhD students were the most likely to express anti-Jewish prejudice and hostility to Israel and to consider Israel/Palestine to be an issue of personal importance, compared to other graduate students." brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisemiti…
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They opened it to usher in a new chapter. I see many Iraqis online inviting the Iraqi Jewish community to visit or come back to Iraq, they express regret and keep apologizing for the Farhoud. Things are changing in the Middle East. One of the biggest remaining obstacles is Israel’s image, and that can be repaired, too. But that’s the Israeli government’s responsibility. To tell the truth, I’ve observed a shift in public sentiment across many Arab countries following the war with Iran. More people seem open to making peace with Israel, but not without the establishment of a Palestinian state. From what I’ve seen, Muslim voices who are indifferent to the Palestinian cause remain a small minority.
Did you know that until the 1940s, the population of Baghdad, Iraq 🇮🇶 was ONE THIRD Jewish ? Now there are....none At least a Jewish museum has now opened in Baghdad to remember and honour that lost heritage
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I joined the APA as a postdoc, and resigned a few years ago. This article explains why: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the Psychological Association by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-… via @WSJopinion
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Une famille juive nommée Karnofsky, qui a émigré de Lituanie aux États-Unis, a eu pitié d'un garçon de 7 ans et l'a accueilli chez elle. Là, il séjourna et passa la nuit dans cette maison familiale juive, où, pour la première fois de sa vie, il fut traité avec gentillesse et tendresse. Lorsqu'il se couchait, Mme Karnovski lui chantait des berceuses russes, qu'il chantait avec elle. Plus tard, il apprit à chanter et à jouer diverses chansons russes et juives. Au fil du temps, ce garçon est devenu le fils adoptif de cette famille. M. Karnofsky lui a donné de l'argent pour acheter son premier instrument de musique, comme c'était la coutume dans les familles juives. Plus tard, lorsqu'il devint musicien et compositeur professionnel, il utilisa ces mélodies juives dans des compositions telles que St. James's Hospital et Go Down Moses. Le garçon a grandi et a écrit un livre sur cette famille juive qui l’a adopté en 1907. Et il parlait couramment le yiddish avec fierté. En mémoire de cette famille et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, il a porté l'étoile de David et a déclaré que dans cette famille il avait appris « à vivre une vraie vie et avec détermination ». Le nom de ce petit garçon était Louis Armstrong. Ce petit garçon s'appelait Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Louis Armstrong parlait fièrement couramment le yiddish et « Satchmo » signifie en yiddish « grosses joues », un surnom que certains disent que Mme Karnofsky lui a donné !
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i love her
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🇮🇪 The Irish state has published an advert discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandchildren, as part of a campaign designed to promote "consent".
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Thanks, Vivek, for doing your part in turning American politics into the Jerry Springer show. Exclusive: Ramaswamy doubles down on explosive ad featuring rival's mother, despite backlash axios.com/2026/10/21/ramaswa…
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Olive harvesters with cell phones.
I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.
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A clarifying run-down of the various strains of today's right wing from @aaron_renn: from alt-right gamers to alt lite MAGAs, to European inspired white nationalists, to the BAP"dissident right." Highly recommended. "Meet the Post-Religious Right" firstthings.com/meet-the-pos…
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Four of the five young American Barn Owls on Manhattan’s Upper West Side were happy to come out for their photo op and pose like pros! The fifth was a bit more camera-shy, staying tucked away inside the water tower, peeking out just once. 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉💕 #birdcpp, #NYC, #barnowl
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"Mamdani has discovered that socialism can succeed in New York through one simple trick: abandoning socialism." And @jonathanchait has discovered that liberalism can succeed in NYC only by abandoning the irrelevant centrist-industrial-complex blob ;) theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
"When talking to D.S.A.-ers, I often had the sense that they sincerely believed in a class revolution that they were not in any immediate way working toward." This one should make the rounds @benwallacewells newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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I, too, have been a frat skeptic since I was 17 or 18, but I don't see how banning frats would avoid running afoul of Title IX unless you banned sororities, too. But maybe someone expert in that area of law could weigh in?
I dislike fraternities, but banning all-male organizations at colleges, let alone equating them with hatred & white supremacy, is the height of progressive intolerance & bigotry. Young men, especially in our moment, need more not less opportunities to connect with other men.
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If Woke 1 was crazy, Woke 2 is deranged . (this is quoted appreciatively by the new head of the American Psychological Association)
"Black pussy theory is the critical and creative tradition of considering how Black women and their genitalia figure into interlocking discourses of race, gender, and sexuality.” The new president of @APA doi.org/10.51681/1.811
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“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”— Adolf Hitler, speaking of one of his inspirations for genocide. I don’t expect a Columbia professor to know this sort of thing anymore, but Abraham Lincoln was not responsible for the Armenian genocide.
Zohran Mamdani's father: “America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.”
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He's a professor of government, anthropology, and international affairs at Columbia University, where tuition, fees, room, board and book costs a mere $99,460 a year.
Zohran Mamdani's father: “America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.”
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