Words matter. These are the best Bari Weiss Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Liberals shouldn’t cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what’s liberalism about?
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld’s famous aphorism that ‘Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,’ and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest – or costliest – of sins.
We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.
Mr. Trump had campaigned on attacking the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.
One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.
The Women’s March moved me.
There’s no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.
Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?
Australians have more fun. They just do. I guess I should not be surprised by this fact given that this is the place that birthed both Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue.
Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more ’empowering’ and ‘inclusive.’
Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.
We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.
Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations.
Israel’s highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people want to go about their business without a religious authority having a say.
The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.
I haven’t watched MTV’s annual Video Music Awards since Bill Clinton was president. I was wearing a plastic choker, and Alanis Morissette won for ‘Ironic.’
Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides – moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community – are not.
In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism’s origin story is about 2,000 years older.
We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home.
Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don’t need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.
I believe that the ‘believe all women’ vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.
Australia’s defamation laws help explain why the #MeToo movement, while managing to take down some of the most powerful men in the entertainment and media industry in the United States, has not taken off there.
Culture should be shared, not hoarded.
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.
The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.
Donald Trump’s election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.
I believe the Earth is warming.
There’s no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students.
‘Believe women’ only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.
I think ‘Les Demoiselles D’Avignon’ is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.
In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life – from the kosher certification of food to conversion to marriages and burials – are controlled by the rabbinate. In Israel, then, the official religion is not just Judaism. It’s Orthodoxy.
Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It’s undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry run. It is the one day of the year when we Jews are asked to look our mortality in the face.
Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives.
In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.
Part of the beauty of the way Australians hang out isn’t just how relaxed it is, but the inclusive, rolling nature of how they socialize.
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn’t been admitted.
I don’t trade on my sexual identity in that way for political points. I think that’s lame, and it’s not my style.
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we’re going to have a lot of empty museums.
For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right – and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers.
Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
In my experience, American office Christmas parties mean that everyone gets a thimbleful of lukewarm Champagne in a plastic cup.
