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Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. His most recent book is Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.

America’s new muscularity has placed the world on notice: This is no longer the United States of Obama and Biden. Red lines will be enforced.
This should be the last place for Jew-hatred.
“Leopoldstadt” should be required viewing for Kanye West, Kyrie Irving and the woke mobs who had never heard of Kristallnacht and who believe that Jews, throughout the ages, have led charmed, white-privileged lives.
The political divisions in America and the rancor in our public debate has, arguably, never been worse.
Trump might end up being better known as an American defendant than president.
Siding with terrorists over cartoonists is, to say the least, faulty moral judgment.
The sprawling crisis along our southern border is a desecration of American law and moral principle—whatever the Biden administration says.
Israelis want to know: “Do you love us, Joe, or do you love the Squad? Because you can’t love both.”
“New York, New York” is now a less “wonderful town,” and having a “New York State of Mind” will soon have less to do with longing than with possibly leaving.