Most Clicked This Week
- Bret Stephen's Israel stint taught him "democracies rarely muster their full reserves of determination until they’ve been bloodied one time too many"
- Israeli Superstar Gal Gadot tries to cheer us up but the knives are out: “Nothing like rich famous people singing “imagine no possessions” in their mortgage free homes as the rest of society queue at Lidl for broken biscuits”
- “The Rafah Brigade has been defeated. Their four battalions have been destroyed, and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area”
- ‘Are you a Jew?’ Arab Attacks on Jews nothing new.
- "The explicit goal of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the elimination of the Jewish state, not the building-up of a Palestinian counterpart"
- Roman colonialists invented the word “Palestine” in order to insult the native Jewish population with the memory of their ancient enemies, the Philistines.
- Israel reaches out to France before resumption of Iran nuclear talks
- Rafah Egypt-Gaza border crossing "track record conclusively disproves the widespread fallacy that Hamas is primarily concerned with the Palestinian cause rather than the cause of global jihad"
Tag Archives: Charles Lipson
“Universities should be expected to provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Restoring Free Speech at Our Universities Charles Lipson September 30, 2022 Now that the autumn semester is well underway, it is worth asking whether students have a chance to participate in free and open debate. The short … Continue reading
“None of the questions will be answered because none will be asked because the committee’s role is not inquiry but confirmation of a useful narrative”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been June 16, 2022 A real investigation would have ignited argumentation, cross-examination, and disagreements— the sort of give-and-take for which congressional committees are famous. In contrast, the January 6 show … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Lipson, Donald Trump, January 6, Victor Davis Hanson
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“We are stronger together. We’ll be around as long as it takes, supporting and in solidarity with this amazing community and people. Our friendship is solid and everlasting,” posted Israel Consul General to Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky
JNS As South Florida grapples with loss, Jewish community props up first responders, family by Faygie Levy Holt June 25, 2021 …Hatzalah is currently mandating a shift schedule to allow its members to get some rest. “A lot of our … Continue reading
“The most consequential effect of open immigration and lax criminal enforcement is to undermine the safe, stable environment law-abiding citizens need to go about their lives, free from predation”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration by Professor Charles Lipson March 11, 2021 If you think really hard, perhaps you can imagine more disastrous policies than throwing open our country’s southern border and abandoning criminal-law enforcement … Continue reading
“To preserve our democracy, we must resist the mob. That begins with understanding the gravity of the threat and standing up to it”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Defund the Thought Police by Charles Lipson June 24, 2020 Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement. These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down … Continue reading
Two from Lipson: “What have these past bureaucratic egregious abuses got to do with CDC, NIH, HHS, and the Wuhan coronavirus? Quite a lot, actually”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Time of Pandemic by Professor Charles Lipson March 19, 2020 As the coronavirus spreads and the Centers for Disease Control work around-the-clock to mitigate the disaster, it’s easy to see why we … Continue reading
Lipson: Three Steps to Open Campuses to Free Speech
REAL CLEAR POLITICS Stop the Soft Despotism Stifling Campus Free Speech by Charles Lipson March 6, 2017 Last week at Vermont’s Middlebury College, left-wing students and off-campus activists shouted down a prominent conservative speaker, injured a professor as she was … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Charles Lipson, Charles Murray, StandWithUs
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