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America: Devolution, Revolution, or Renewal?

Nov 3, 2024 | theimaginativeconservative.org | David Eisenberg

The truth is that for all its failings, America has provided more opportunity, security, and freedom to a group of people more diverse than any other nation in history. It is not because America is systemically rotten; but because it is foundationally good. Justice for all calls for those foundations to be defended, not destroyed. The following essay is occasioned by the question, can there be a conservative revolution?
Overlooking the Past – David A. Eisenberg

Apr 15, 2024 | lawliberty.org | David Eisenberg |Spencer Klavan |James Patterson |Brian Domitrovic

In land acknowledgments, there is to be found a fatuous mix of nerve and naiveté. The former comes to light in the public pronouncement that some present-day site was once the ancestral homeland of another people and that those currently occupying it and making the pronouncement have absolutely no intention of giving it back. Imagine finding a lost dog, keeping it, and solemnly proclaiming that this dog traditionally belonged to the Thompsons who live down the street.
Tocqueville on the Road to Despotism

Mar 1, 2024 | startingpointsjournal.com | David Eisenberg

“Providence has not created the human race either entirely independent or perfectly slave. It traces, it is true, a fatal circle around each man that he cannot leave; but within its vast limits man is powerful and free; so too with peoples.” Thus mused Alexis de Tocqueville in the closing pages of his magnum opus, Democracy in America.
Witnessing Strength and Resilience in Israel

Feb 29, 2024 | jewishboston.com | David Eisenberg

While I’ve had the good fortune to visit Israel many times, CJP’s solidarity mission was my first trip to Israel since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7. It was an opportunity to learn, see, and meet some of the people who were there on Oct. 7 and get insights into the current situation. After months of going through each day feeling like I was in the wrong place, this mission was an opportunity to be in the right place, to bear witness, and to stand with the people of Israel.
Six Days in Israel With CJP

Feb 29, 2024 | jewishboston.com | David Eisenberg

While I’ve had the good fortune to visit Israel many times, CJP’s solidarity mission was my first trip to Israel since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7. It was an opportunity to learn, see, and meet some of the people who were there on Oct. 7 and get insights into the current situation. After months of going through each day feeling like I was in the wrong place, this mission was an opportunity to be in the right place, to bear witness, and to stand with the people of Israel.
EEOC Issues Its Year End Litigation Round Up and Strategic Enforcement Plan for the Next 5 Years

Nov 16, 2023 | lexology.com | David Eisenberg

ABSTRACT: In its 2023 year end litigation round up and strategic enforcement plan for fiscal years 2024-28, the EEOC highlights its increased enforcement activities over the past year, and new areas of emphasis for future enforcement.
Gaza, Islam, and the West

Nov 11, 2023 | quillette.com | RJ Smith |David Eisenberg |Aaron Sarin

The Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians committed on October 7th have refocussed attention on the place of Muslims and Jews in the Western world. A number of activists on college campuses and elsewhere have downplayed if not dismissed the attacks, which included rape, torture, mutilation, and the indiscriminate massacre of around 260 defenceless people at a music festival.
The Barbarian Evasions

Nov 9, 2023 | quillette.com | David Eisenberg |Benny Morris |Michael Ben-Gad

When I ask my students to rethink the universality of human rights, the mere suggestion befuddles them. Creatures of their progressive times, the a priori existence of such rights is as firmly established in their minds as the existence of witches or geocentricity was in the minds of their ancestors. Even as they indulge my lines of inquiry, their convictions by and large remain unshakeable. But though unshakeable, they prove fantastically protean, as recent events have made disconcertingly plain.
The Art(s) of Liberation

Oct 10, 2023 | frontporchrepublic.com | David Eisenberg

The following is an edited version of an address delivered at Eureka College’s 2023 opening convocation ceremony. “May you live in interesting times.” So goes an ancient Chinese proverb, which, like my mother’s antique chinaware, is neither ancient nor Chinese. As we sit back and survey our times, I think it safely can be said: request granted. Our times be interesting.
The Self-Inflation & Devaluation of Man

Mar 28, 2023 | theimaginativeconservative.org | David Eisenberg

People grow less self-aware the more self-absorbed they become. An explanation for this apparent incongruity would be that genuine self-awareness entails the overcoming or transcendence of the self. The principle of self-denial, so foundational to Buddhism or asceticism more broadly, exemplifies this ancient piece of wisdom. Enlightenment demands a degree of perspective or proportion that brings with it an eclipse of the self and invites that humbling and liberating awareness: What do I matter?