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As Jonathan S. Tobin [Email him] notes in  Commentary, [T]he real offense here is ... his attempt to wrap him in the Star of David and to somehow brand his opponents as traitors to the pro-Israel cause. ... [H]is invocation of “America First” and the use of a term like “renegade Jew” in the headline (though not in the text of the article) seems to echo the smears of the pro-Trump alt right racists who have attacked conservative critics of the candidate with an avalanche of anti-Semitic invective. [ , May 16, 2016] Horowitz's offense was not simply criticizing Kristol's campaign again...

Our Populism, Their Populism Uditha Devapriya Ever since Athens and Rome, populists have been trying to win it big. Under them words acquire new meanings. Thus people become “the people”, the addition of an article investing an otherwise hackneyed term with sanctimonious awe. “I am the people,” Jayalal Rohana declares at a crucial moment in Jayantha Chandrasiri’s Hankithi Dahathuna, and indeed for much of its history populism claimed to not just stand for, but be with, the populi. Populists did this by pitting voters against elites and institutions, by convincing them that they we...