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Like Sally Rooney, I am appalled by Israel's occupation. That doesn't mean an Israeli publishing house should be denied a translation contract.

Who is behind The Pillar, the newsletter rocking the Catholic Church? Why is a Catholic Substack causing so much controversy? The Pillar claimed to have personal phone data about a high-ranking Catholic administrator at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops using Grindr. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay/Creative Commons July 29, 2021 (RNS) — When a conservative newsletter called The Pillar published a story last week alleging to have cellphone data indicating that Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, a high-ranking official at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, used the hookup app Grindr, m...

The Biden administration's clear hostility toward the Cuban people is part of a long "progressive" tradition. Fri Jul 16, 2021 Editors’ note: As we witness the Cuban people taking to the streets to confront the barbaric communist regime that has tortured them for decades, we witness the leftist Biden administration -- and leftist groups such as Black Lives Matter -- signal support for Cuba's Stalinist tyranny and engage in a callous disregard for the Cuban people. It's no surprise, for instance, that the Biden administration just issued a statement telling Cubans they are not welcom...

By Jonah Raskin | Near the end of his days as a cultural revolutionary, Abbie Hoffman explained, facetiously, that he was to blame for crime in the streets, kids acting out, and drug addiction. He was reacting to the ongoing assaults on the Sixties and the smears on his own personality. Even before the decade of the 1960s ended, critics of the counterculture and the anti-war movement lambasted radicals, feminists, and left-wing ideologists for creating anarchy and fomenting chaos. Over the past five decades, the culture wars — with defenders of the Sixties on one side and detractors on the...