Everything good is firmly rooted in the real.

The benefits of America’s alliance with Israel are so vastly lopsided in our favor, that the U.S. government should be willing to do almost anything to preserve it.

An open letter to the young men who identify (or are accurately identified) as “alt right”, “woke right”, “groypers”, etc.

The harshest words spoken against the State of Israel since the October 7th massacre have not been from Islamist heads of state, or from leftists, or even from jihadists. No, instead the harshest words spoken against the State of Israel since October 7th 2023 have been from certain leaders of the Jewish state’s Christian community. Well… the time has come for me to set my napkin down, roll up my sleeves, spit on my palms, and knock a few belligerents through the saloon door.

We’re not big on denying our appetites these days. “Suppressing” is what we call it, and we say it’s not “healthy”. And we say it’s not “healthy” because the goal in life—we believe—is to be “happy”. In previous centuries the goal of life was to attain virtue. But now, it’s to be “happy”. And while I could get into the historical weeds about how and when this shift in the Western worldview occurred, I’ve decided that any such digression would only be a distraction from the main point of this essay: that hedonism has an expiration date. And if you don’t acknowledge the expiration date of your hedonism—insisting that your life can always be one big party that lasts forever and ever, no matter how many years pass and no matter how old you get—you will eventually wind up bitter, ugly, anxious, and alone.

In 2025, the term “Judeo-Christian” is about as popular among the right as celery sticks at a pizza party. This is because a small but particularly loud and influential segment of the religious right has an annoying allergy to coalition building. Rightwing religious Jews (who won’t ally with Christians out of suspicion that said alliance would eventually culminate in attempts to convert them) don’t like the term “Judeo-Christian” because… well… they don’t like the idea of their religion sharing a hyphen with a religion that—in their mind—is entirely separate and idolatrous. Radical traditionalist Catholics (who won’t ally with Jews because of good ol’ fashioned medieval antisemitism, and won’t ally with Protestants due to bitterness over the Reformation) don’t like the term “Judeo-Christian” because the only group they dislike more than Protestants are Jews. And “Christian Nationalist” Protestants (who also won’t ally with Catholics due to * checks notes * bitterness over the Reformation) don’t like the term “Judeo-Christian” because the only group they dislike more than Catholics are Jews. Incidentally, none of these people are particularly good at organizing real formidable opposition when mobs of leftwing activists and violent men from Islamic countries come a’knockin. Each little group likes to silo themselves off and think they can take on (and take down) liberal cultural degeneracy and migrant crime all by themselves. Rejecting a massive cavalry of thoroughbreds, they ride into battle as a small pathetic cluster straddling shetland ponies. Folly. Extremely sectarian people are useless. Actually they’re worse than useless, because most of the time they actively try to prevent interfaith political coalitions from forming, rather than going away and keeping their disagreements to themselves. In opposition to these people (complete and unabashed), I would like to defend both the term “Judeo-Christian” and the aspiration behind the term: which is for Jews and Christians to grow close to one another, and find common cause at a time when both groups are under attack by the same enemies.