Daniel Ryan Spaulding

Jon Lovett and the Terrible Secret

From Melrose Place to Michigan: How the American left turned against Zionism—and why MAGA embraced it.

Rashida Tlaib & the Feminization of Jihad

Last night in New York City, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the world’s foremost experts on contemporary antisemitism and the Muslim Brotherhood, Dr. Charles Asher Small.I had been invited to a monthly salon on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where educators, artists, writers, journal...

Sarah Silverman & The Great Schlep: 18 Years Later

In 2008, young American Jews were told to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. Eighteen years later, perhaps we should have been listening to our grandmothers all along.

I Wanted to Believe They Weren’t Monsters

By January 2024, I had made the difficult decision to discontinue my Off-Broadway show in New York City. There were two reasons.The first was that both the venue and I had been subjected to a relentless campaign of intimidation. Death threats, threats of boycotts, attempts to destroy my reputation,...

Ilhan Omar & the End of Identity Politics

The politics of joy, the rise of political Islamism, and what I witnessed on the ground in Minneapolis.

30 Years in 3

I feel as though thirty years have passed in three. And in some ways, they have.For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic occupying Iran has been constructing an enormous infrastructure of terror, surrounding the State of Israel with a jihadist ring of fire while extending its ideological infl...