In 1790 George Washington assured the “Children of the Stock of Abraham” that the newly founded United States of America would be a safe home where “there shall be none to make him afraid.” Drawing on recent statistics indicating an eruption of thousands of anti-Semitic incidents, Jack Fowler in Philanthropy Daily wonders whether American Jews can still feel safe and whether the Founding Fathers’ stirring promise has lapsed.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


