In 2013, when I was "outed" for my Holocaust revisionist past, I understood that one of the unavoidable hassles of being forced to "rejoin" the revisionist fringe ...
At the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, none of the speakers used the phrase “white people.” Anti-racists, however, need to make EVERYTHING about ...
Attempting to successfully perform the plays of Shakespeare at an all-black high school was challenging, to say the least. In the spring of 1985, I starred in Merchant of Venice ...
Last week, the 2016 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) concluded its weeklong series of screenings here on the L.A. Westside. It's always a special time when the LAJFF comes ...
Emperor of the North, the classic 1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich, details the dysfunctional relationship between train-hopping hobos and the railroad men who kill them. It's ...
When someone remotely non-liberal agrees to appear on The Daily Show, they are knowingly throwing themselves to the wolves. It's dozens of people and thousands of dollars devoted ...
The hubbub surrounding last week's announcement that "Underground Railroad" conductor Harriet Tubman would be movin" on up to the obverse of the twenty-dollar bill led ...
When #TheDress became a viral sensation last year, you had people who were absolutely positive the dress was gold and white while others looking at the same picture were just as ...
I"ve been writing for this site since 2008 and am very thankful to be a part of the Takimag family. It didn"t even occur to me to jump ship when the Derb was lynched and ...
The "Grim Sleeper" went on trial in L.A. last week. Fifty-seven-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is accused of murdering at least eleven women (and one man) in a string ...
Great news, anarchists, you have your martyr. LaVoy Finicum has just been shot by the Feds after a two-month standoff with authorities. He represented ranchers who were being ...
Last week I decided to "binge-watch" the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer. I mean, I needed something to do with my time as I nursed the shattered femur I incurred ...
What has the world come to when a Jew can"t exploit the Holocaust? And not just any Jew, but the prime minister of Israel. Oy gevalt! As most of the world knows by now, ...
Joshua Goldberg is a walking stereotype of an Internet troll (Fat? Check. Lives with his mom? Check. No social life? Check). Through his complicated network of online personas, ...
Doctor Johnson wisely advised writers to strike out those passages in their own work that they found particularly fine; but the opposite of this advice is followed each week by ...
I call "false advertising" on the Washingtonian. Its July 24 piece by Benjamin Freed promises that we"ll "Meet the Guy Who's Protesting a Maryland Theater's ...