Commentary Take a look at the following quotes from the Biden administration and Chinese Communist Party officials. Can you guess which country’s government made these statements? “Systemic racism … is a stain [on] our nation’s soul.” “America has a long history of systemic racism.” “In order to lead abroad, America must continue to address racial injustice and…
Opinion: The Anti-American Administration
Commentary Take a look at the following quotes from the Biden administration and Chinese Communist Party officials. Can you guess which country’s government made these statements? “Systemic racism … is a stain [on] our nation’s soul.” “America has a long history of systemic racism.” “In order to lead abroad, America must continue to address racial injustice and…
Whites Aren’t Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West
Commentary In “Why the Jews?” my book on anti-Semitism, there is a chapter on anti-Americanism. My co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and I long ago understood that many of the reasons for Jew-hatred and America-hatred were the same. Among them are envy of success—material, of course, but even more importantly, success in terms of influence. Another…
COVID Response Hastens Canada’s Shift Toward Collectivism
Commentary Sometimes change happens so incrementally that most of us barely notice. Canada’s steady march toward a collectivist and authoritarian mindset over the course of a decade has been that kind of change. But the events of the last year have made the culture shift undeniable. Group rights are in. Individual rights are out. A…
Historic Figures Who Recognized That Speech Is Freedom’s First Line of Defense
In a March 21, 2021 column (“One of the Most Significant Defenses of Free Speech in American History”), Boston Globe writer Jeff Jacoby quoted the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as…
Democracy, Freedom Drives the American Spirit of Innovation: Art Thomspon
Americans being allowed to freely exchange different viewpoints is what drives the spirit of innovation and pushing the limits of human accomplishment, according to Art Thompson, president of Sage Cheshire Aerospace. Thompson, who designed the space capsule for the Red Bull Stratos Space Jump, told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program that a large part of…
Let My People Go: Passover and Slavery in Iraq
Commentary On March 28, Jews around the world will sit down and feast, some outside in balmy weather in Israel, California, and in the hotels of the Gulf Arab states that are now at peace with the Jewish State. The rest of us in the temperate world will celebrate on Zoom. The story that is…
The Fight for America’s Soul—and Future
Commentary If you get paid to give your opinion, then you have an obligation to be honest. So, let me tell you what I believe about the state of America today. As Americans, we’re currently in a fight for our freedom, for what we believe in as a country. And make no mistake: The stakes…
Freedom Betrayed by a Population of Digital Snitches
Commentary No people can long be free that does not want to be free or cares little for its own freedom. But the greatest threat to liberty nowadays is from powerful and important groups within society that actively seek, in the name of virtue, to limit the freedom of others. We should never forget that…
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