This Powerful California General Was Credibly Accused of Anti-Semitism. Gavin Newsom Gave Him a Promotion.

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) pledged in October 2022 to combat anti-Semitism “wherever it rears its ugly head.” But when a powerful California National Guard general was credibly accused of denigrating a Jewish subordinate as a “kike” lawyer, Newsom’s Military Department dismissed the allegations on a technicality, and the governor promoted the alleged perpetrator, Matthew

Israel Recovers Bodies of 6 Hostages Executed by Hamas, Including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in Gaza

Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday. The Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies from underground in the southern city of Rafah. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov,

Parsing Joe’s Prose

I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe

Tale of a Cocktail

“History is bunk,” according to Henry Ford. But there is an irony to that quotation—the motor industries patriarch and presidential candidate did not say it. No, when asked about his views on foreign affairs in 1916 the isolationist plutocrat grumbled: What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t

Top Biden-Harris Climate Official Gets Off Easy After Conflict-of-Interest Violations

Joseph Goffman, a senior Biden-Harris administration official who crafted some of the EPA’s most high-profile climate initiatives targeting the manufacturing and automobile sectors, repeatedly violated financial conflict-of-interest rules, his agency’s top watchdog said in a scathing report published this week. Goffman was found to have owned tens of thousands of dollars in companies directly associated