The Post-Partisan Emporium

Raising the Jewish Question Some facts are more equal than others Donald Jeffries I’ve explained many times before that I’d rather be talking about many other subjects than this. I have scores of partially Jewish cousins, but none of them think of themselves as Jews. With all the intermarriage that has taken place, I don’t know what it even means to be a Jew now. But disproportionate power is disproportionate power. Jews are only about two percent of the present U.S. population. That’s a really small minority. There are more Unitarians- three percent- than Jews in America. How many Unitarians have ever been in charge of a movie studio? A television network? A publishing house? A record company? About 3.6 percent of Americans are whole or partially deaf. How many deaf persons own pro sports franchises? How many are agents for athletes and entertainers? Jewish prominence in all areas of the culture, and much of politics, is so obvious that it can’t be honestly disregarded. There is absol...

  The Hydra of Government: How the Global Engagement Center Lives On Through Rebranding     The Global Engagement Center was defunded, only to reemerge under a new name—proof that bureaucracy rarely dies, it just rebrands. By   Roger Kimball January 5, 2025 If you visit the State Department’s   website for the Global Engagement Center , you will read that “The Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024.” Not really. As has been often observed, the nearest thing to immortality this side of the pearly gates is a government initiative.   I have noted   in this space and elsewhere that the innocuous-sounding “Global Engagement Center” was actually (in   Vivek Ramaswamy’s accurate summary ) a “key node of the censorship industrial complex.” According to its mission statement, the GEC was supposed to be focused on “ foreign   state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, securi...