The mob versus democracy

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 Melanie

The extraordinary protests against President Donald Trump go far beyond normal expressions of political disagreement. As I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network, they represent a more frightening development: the widespread assumption that the Presidential election result was illegitimate, and therefore can properly be opposed by a force assembled on the streets because the people on those streets didn’t like the result.

Culture wars Jewish people USA

The Jewish surrender to the west’s eclipse of reason

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 MelanieBari Weiss, ideologies, New york Times

Rarely has a journalist’s resignation from their newspaper created such an impact as the coruscating letter...
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Politically homeless as the western mind shuts down

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 MelanieCoronavirus, fantasists and realists, hyper-individualism

To make oneself politically homeless may be regarded as a misfortune. To do it a second...
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Conversation: the eclipse of liberalism and the failure of conservatism

July 9, 2020 Melanieantisemitism, Conservatism, liberalism

I was pleased to have a long video conversation (in two parts) with John O’Sullivan, former...

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