In Jewish World Review, Jonathan Tobin looks at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book on the Middle East, The Message, and the (mostly) laudatory news coverage it has received. While he’s hailed as a literary genius, Coates’ claim that the experiences of Palestinians are analogous to that of blacks in Jim Crow-era America is wildly misinformed and inaccurate, Tobin explains.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.