William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal. 5 Books, including: Marriage and Caste in America
Brooklyn New York
Joined September 2011
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"In my lifetime the GOP has been many things good and bad, but it had never been decadent." @Peggynoonannyc on Trump Inc gilded corruption.
News from my hometown, the city of brotherly love.
Jaw-dropping piece from a great reporter about a congressional candidate who has managed to keep his Islamist radicalism on the down low. Read it and learn.
A one-time acolyte to the Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, a traveler among jihadis, Democrat Adam Hamawy is about to get elected to Congress. Was he merely curious and hapless? Did he harbor jihadi beliefs now renounced? He provides little to no real explanation: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
This is consistent with my own impression of @mattyglesias and @ezraklein, but my guess is I'm not typical. Theory: women are generally more likely to prefer E.K. to MY
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Our new book, Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America's Epistemic Crisis, assembles an all-star cast of contributors who argue that many core progressive beliefs are wrong, overstated, or more certain than the evidence allows. This 🧵 outlines *every* myth-busting claim made in the book and which of our contributors makes it.
me: at around 4 p.m.
I'm thrilled to share that our recent Barred Owl has returned to Central Park. I paid it a visit yesterday afternoon as it was waking from its slumber! 🦉🦉🦉 #Owls #CentralPark #birdcpp
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It’s the most brutal class at Harvard—and suddenly everyone wants in. No AI, no finance. It's a big dose of western civ and classics.
Great to see.
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl… via @WSJ
good on @nytimes for covering.
Democratic dirty tricks in Alaska:
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
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Just delightful videos of Bedouin Israeli voters riding camels to the polls, mostly to vote for Ra'am, an Islamist party with a Jewish #2 that could be the kingmaker in the election's outcome.
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On Monday, Bramble the Barred Owl returned to the Central Park Ramble after spending several weeks somewhere outside the park. Bramble became a star in September by hunting well before sunset and giving amazing views, and did so again yesterday. 🦉 🧡
Maybe it's time for a rebrand. "Humanities" no longer seems like the right word.
Massive survey of grad students finds: "Humanities PhD students were the most likely to express anti-Jewish prejudice and hostility to Israel and to consider Israel/Palestine to be an issue of personal importance, compared to other graduate students."
brandeis.edu/cmjs/antisemiti…
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They opened it to usher in a new chapter. I see many Iraqis online inviting the Iraqi Jewish community to visit or come back to Iraq, they express regret and keep apologizing for the Farhoud.
Things are changing in the Middle East. One of the biggest remaining obstacles is Israel’s image, and that can be repaired, too. But that’s the Israeli government’s responsibility.
To tell the truth, I’ve observed a shift in public sentiment across many Arab countries following the war with Iran. More people seem open to making peace with Israel, but not without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
From what I’ve seen, Muslim voices who are indifferent to the Palestinian cause remain a small minority.
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I joined the APA as a postdoc, and resigned a few years ago. This article explains why: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the Psychological Association by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-… via @WSJopinion
