In America’s 250th year, there has been a disturbing rise in antisemitism in the country’s politics. Whilst the left argues that American Jews who support Israel are “pro genocide” and root their hostility toward Israel in Marxist postcolonial theory, on the right the charge is that to be Jewish is to be fundamentally un-American and even a threat to America due to dual loyalty to Israel. Such a narrative reeks of historical illiteracy. Rightwing antisemites forget (which is to say, they ignore) how intertwined the story of the American founding is with diaspora Jewry.

It isn’t hard to understand why an alliance between leftists and Islamists would make this move: if you’ve hit a plateau in your number of supporters and you can’t win more to your cause, you can at least disseminate finely-tuned propaganda that divides the supporters of your opposition.

Perfect for 10 PM on a Friday or 9 AM on a Tuesday.

My first poem in seven years.

We tend to conflate personal holiness with constant effort. And while personal holiness does indeed require actions and not just words, I think our conflation of personal holiness with nonstop effort still—in a way—gives us a distorted view of G-d and our relationship to Him. We begin to think of G-d as a father whose love is conditional upon our meeting certain expectations, and if we fail to meet those expectations, then He’ll no longer love us.

To be a “postliberal” conservative is to be someone who seeks to rediscover and excavate a conservatism that emerges from a deeper strata of Western civilization—pre-Enlightenment—and draws legitimacy from a more ancient and teleological epistemology beyond and apart from the classical liberal framework that gave birth to the fake conservatism you and I have been exposed to for practically our whole lives.