Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.

Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.

Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan.

I believe the Earth is warming.

I believe that babies should be vaccinated pretty much as soon as they exit the womb.

I haven't watched MTV's annual Video Music Awards since Bill Clinton was president. I was wearing a plastic choker, and Alanis Morissette won for 'Ironic.'

Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism - the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures, and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations.

There's no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students.

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

I hate New Year's Eve.

There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.

If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.

I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.

When Kendrick Lamar blasts Mr. Trump, he is preaching to the choir. When Eminem does it, there's a good chance Trump voters are actually listening.

Eminem knows that Republicans buy songs - his songs - too. His message to them is to stop buying.

Eminem isn't the first entertainer to part ways with his conservative fans.

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

At the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish, nonpartisan research group, at least two people left over the way the think tank responded to Mr. Trump's election.

The Heritage Foundation, by far the most influential think tank of the Trump era, is widely seen as a redoubt of Trumpism in large part because of the tremendous influence of the Mercers, who are major donors.

In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life - from the kosher certification of food to conversion to marriages and burials - are controlled by the rabbinate. In Israel, then, the official religion is not just Judaism. It's Orthodoxy.

One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

Israel's highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people want to go about their business without a religious authority having a say.

I'd venture a bet that no American hates 'Prairie Home Companion' more than I do.

'Annie Hall' and 'The Graduate' are incredible films. Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad?

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.

I believe that the 'believe all women' vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.

I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith. That due process is better than mob rule.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

The best movie theater in the world is in a dingy basement on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The worn seats are painful. There are probably bigger screens in half the apartments in the complex above the theater. And forget Fandango; the theater barely has a website. You want to buy a ticket? Get in line.

In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.

Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not.

It's no rare thing for the Israeli prime minister to enrage the Jews of the diaspora.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.

Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more 'empowering' and 'inclusive.'

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry run. It is the one day of the year when we Jews are asked to look our mortality in the face.