Tuesday Open Comments

Enlightening Americans about, well, American Jews is not always easy since the mainstream media loves to distort their positions and opinions and pollsters take huge leaps to describe their voting habits without ever actually surveying their loyalties.

Jews’ outsized presence in the culture, media and as commentators, mostly as leftists, distorts the genuine character of Judaic America.  There are probably more eloquent Jewish voices on the Right than on the Left, but one would never know it being bombarded with the relentless propaganda of elitist dogma in academia and entertainment in the American Public Square.

Listen here to some of my fine Jewish compadres, nearly heartbroken, at The Tablet.  It is not just about Jews for, as the saying goes, Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization.

Stop Being Shocked—Once and for All

None of the horrors you are witnessing this week—not the massacre of Jews, not the betrayal by public figures and popular activist movements, not the moral insanity of our universities and cultural spaces—happened by accident.

For the past decade, an elite consensus began to emerge. It was marketed as a worldview of optimism, of progress and justice brought about by the dawning of correct morality. It favored using the power of digital monopolies and elite institutions to reeducate Americans in new and better ways of thinking, writing, speaking, and being.

Many of us at Tablet believed strongly, and still believe, in the possibility of creating a better world. But something bothered us from the very beginning about these ideas, and the people pushing them. Every time we pressed on one of the newly mass-embraced policy proposals or narratives—intersectionality, decolonization studies, the Iran nuclear deal, Russiagate, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, critical race theory, COVID lockdowns—a weird thing would happen: The idea itself fell apart at the seams within seconds of contact with reality, and yet its defenders got more sure of themselves, more performatively boastful, more passionate and gleeful about smearing anyone who dared to question them.

and this,

Tablet didn’t wade into the culture wars for its own sake. We did it because we feared we saw an emerging world in which the broad-minded American civic ideals and institutions that had kept us safe for so long were falling apart, which was bad for the country—and also meant that Jews would once again be seen as enemies to be eliminated.

As a result, our archive now looks like the answer to the question faced by so many people this week—namely: What the hell is going on?

Below is a selection from the past five years.

There are 20 links to great columns and articles from the last five years.  

I urge you to read as many as you have time.