Author: David Rutman

There are some people who will just never die. They can’t. It’s unimaginable to consider the world without them. They are such a constant; always at the meeting, showing up to the shiva, shushing the other ladies in the cardroom or ruling the boardroom. They are always there. That is Annette Shapiro. I say “is” […]

Mark Ruffalo is entitled to oppose the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. He is entitled to dislike Larry Ellison, David Ellison, Oracle, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, or any corporate or political policy he chooses. What he is not entitled to is immunity from criticism when his arguments against a massive American media transaction somehow metastasize into yet […]

The city of Montreal is so broke that the mayor quipped recently that the “city’s credit card is maxxed out.” Meanwhile, the crises are proliferating, from a rise in poverty, crime and homelessness to decaying infrastructure, a lack of affordable housing and interminable waits for medical care. So, naturally, on Monday the city council will […]

Mark Ruffalo escalated his campaign against Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, accusing the Ellison family and Oracle of complicity in what he called a “genocide” in Gaza—and warning that the company’s technology could eventually be “used on you.” The actor shared a video of Oracle Executive Vice Chair […]

A confession: I often fall asleep in Shabbat services. I try not to, but the rhythmic cadence of the cantor’s voice, the warm light, and the exhaustion of a long week usually win. But at synagogue recently, I sat wide awake, unable to shake a strange idea out of my mind. Because it was a […]

In 1995, Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi addressed supporters in the Ohio with a prediction. The West, he stated, would not fall “through the sword” but would collapse under quiet Islamist infiltration. Through the patient, legal work of building influence inside a society’s institutions to undermine them – “we will conquer Europe, we will conquer […]

New York Magazine’s 31-page package on Arab and Muslim life in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York, branded “Habibi City” (published on August 10, 2026) has already drawn condemnation for the obvious reason: it frames Zionism, the belief that Jews have a right to sovereignty and self-determination in part of their indigenous homeland, as a species […]

Many elected officials, candidates, political analysts and podcast hosts affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, and related far-leftist ilk, probably don’t kiss their mothers very often. I say this not only because their parents must be embarrassed that they raised kids so woefully ignorant of history, hateful of America and its freedoms, resentful of […]