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Vodoo in Denver: How to Save American Anthropology from Itself

By: David Kopel

December 1, 2015

The last living relics of 19th century academia—otherwise known as Anthropologists– disembarked from colleges and universities all over the country last week to attend their Annual Meeting in Denver. Boarding the great metallic birds which once inspired awe and wonder…

Students for Justice in Palestine Seeks Justice for All— Except Jews, Of Course

By: Richard L. Cravatts

October 25, 2015

Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking about those well-meaning, but naïve college students who “torment us without end for they do so…

The Politicization of Middle East Studies

By: Efraim Karsh & Asaf Romirowsky

September 20, 2015

It has been a while since the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the largest and most influential professional body for the study of the region, whose 2,700-plus members inhabit departments of Middle East studies throughout the world, dropped its original…

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism: BDS(M) hurts itself again in l’affaire Matisyahu

By: Gabriel Noah Brahm

September 13, 2015

Last month’s pathetic “Matisyahu affair” conclusively demonstrated the obvious. BDS — or what some call, with a mischievous wink, and not inappropriately, “BDSM”: the sadistic Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement to destroy Israel — is anti-Semitic. For this time —…