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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jun 19

The July/August 2025 issue of COMMENTARY is now available online. Our cover story, “The War Against the War Against the Jews” by @dpletka, lays out the path forward to combat the rise of anti-Semitism. @jpodhoretz rants on debate, discourse, and the deserved pride of the modern…

Commentary's tweet image. The July/August 2025 issue of COMMENTARY is now available online.

Our cover story, “The War Against the War Against the Jews” by @dpletka, lays out the path forward to combat the rise of anti-Semitism.

@jpodhoretz rants on debate, discourse, and the deserved pride of the modern…

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Today's episode @commentary: Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Joel, Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil in DC, and Russia Russia Russia. commentary.org/john-podhoretz…

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LISTEN: Today we bounce from saying goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne to celebrating Billy Joel to talking about Columbia suspending students to the shameful public display of Mahmoud Khalil to Trump’s calling Obama a traitor. It’s a wild ride. commentary.org/john-podhoretz…

Commentary's tweet card. Today we bounce from saying goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne to cel...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

"Government shouldn't pay for anything...only necessities, and if there's any one thing that no one needed, it was another television channel...No one needed that." Watch the full episode & subscribe to Commentary Magazine: youtube.com/watch?v=EgzvR1…

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

There would never again be a military assault against the Jews that would go unanswered. Jews would fight. commentary.org/articles/the-e…

Commentary's tweet card. As we consider Israel’s iron determination to rid itself and the world of the Iranian nuclear threat, we must stop to wonder at the seriousness of national purpose demonstrated by the Jewish st...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

Friedan “had, perhaps, the Jewish vice of worrying too much about everything,” and she taught one of her sons “‘to think for himself and not swallow someone else’s line,’ qualities he considered intrinsically Jewish.” commentary.org/articles/akiva…

Commentary's tweet card. All rise for the mourner’s Kaddish, for here lies Jewish culture—70 years are the life of man, and maybe society, too, which puts us rather nicely in the shiva period for American Judaism’s...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

Prosecution isn’t always persecution, and the U.S. president must be much more careful about distinguishing the two. @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/ba…

Commentary's tweet card. The ability to cast tariffs on foes like magic spells seems to be what Donald Trump missed the most about the power of the presidency. Unfortunately, tariffs aren’t very effective and are us...

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Matthew Continetti@continetti · Jul 21

Today's episode @commentary: The Information War Against Israel; Coldplay and the Kiss Cam; and remembering Ed Feulner. commentary.org/john-podhoretz…

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

LISTEN: More false stories about how Israel is killing the very Gazans it’s trying to feed are suggestive of a new turn in the information war—and how the fact that Israel is not finishing up its task in Gaza is having deleterious consequences. commentary.org/john-podhoretz…

Commentary's tweet card. More false stories about how Israel is killing the very Gaz...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

The NEA vote exposes the public education establishment as having lied through its teeth regarding its post-Oct. 7 mission of bringing the Gaza war to the classroom. commentary.org/seth-mandel/wh…

Commentary's tweet card. The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, has voted to cut ties with the Anti-Def...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 21

These Global South nations believe they are seeing a shift in the axis of power that has given them the means and opportunity to move decisively against the last colonial power, Israel. commentary.org/articles/steph…

Commentary's tweet card. It is a statement of the obvious that the most immediate threat to Israel comes from Islamist terror. And now, with self-described allies such as the UK, France, and Canada turning on Israel and ...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

Confronted by leftist violence, establishment liberals try to blame unjust social conditions. They point to inequality, patriarchy, colonialism, Zionism, and the military-industrial complex. commentary.org/articles/matth…

Commentary's tweet card. You’ve seen the image: A shirtless young man, wearing a mask and gloves, waves a Mexican flag while standing on the roof of a defaced car. He’s ringed by flames from a nearby burning vehicle....

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

Columbia did report false data over many years, and it reported false data about several things. commentary.org/seth-mandel/co…

Commentary's tweet card. When the Trump administration accused Columbia University of violating the civil rights of its Jewish students, the school risked losing both its federal funding and even its accreditation. At th...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

"The Trump administration...pretty much explicitly said...it doesn't believe in 'soft power' or its benefit to the United States over time." Watch the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=MbE50w…

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

Long before the 2024 election, men got the message that the cultural left (and its political arm, the Democratic Party) is hostile to them and to traditional expressions of masculinity. commentary.org/articles/chris…

Commentary's tweet card. A funny thing happened on the way to Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris: Many Democrats realized that, somewhere along the way, ...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

Check out Commentary Magazine reader comments to the May 2025 issue...What Went Wrong on October 7? commentary.org/articles/reade…

Commentary's tweet card. On the May issue: What Went Wrong on October 7 To the Editor: I commend Jonathan Foreman’s very well-written and thorough article explaining what went wrong when Hamas...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 20

No one is reading these books with any measure of surprise that Biden wasn’t all there in private, behind the scenes. That’s because Biden wasn’t all there in front of the scenes, either. commentary.org/articles/tevi-…

Commentary's tweet card. Every four years, the confused, the despondent, and the curious look to campaign postmortems for more details—gossip, really—on what happened in the last presidential election. These tell-all...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 19

"In this case, MAGA media, the Tucker Carlsons, the Steve Bannons & others...they're pushing for more disclosure...AG Bondi's job, and the mainstream media & Democrats are also on board." Watch & subscribe to Commentary magazine: youtube.com/watch?v=MbE50w…

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 19

The argument in favor of turning elementary schools into debating grounds for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict disintegrates upon first contact. commentary.org/seth-mandel/us…

Commentary's tweet card. The shocking story of the expulsion of Jewish students in one of the nation’s top K-8 schools has so many outrageous elements that two of the most important aspects have gone mostly ignored. ...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 19

August Bondi came to his anti-slavery views from a more consciously Jewish perspective. commentary.org/articles/stuar…

Commentary's tweet card. ‘Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other” is how Abraham Lincoln described the dueling forces of the North and South in his Second Inaugur...

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Commentary Magazine@Commentary · Jul 19

But Melinda Gates does a poor impression of someone with radical ideas. commentary.org/articles/naomi…

Commentary's tweet card. If you’re a nonprofit leader planning to read The Next Day, the new memoir/self-help book by Melinda Gates, in the hopes of finding out how sh...

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