Seth Barron

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Seth Barron

Socialist New York State assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has made “affordability” a campaign focus, promising to freeze rents and eliminate bus fares. But Mamdani’s recent comments about international law—and his vow to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for delivery to the International Criminal Court (ICC)—reveal the radical ideology that motivates him far more deeply than does affordability.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Seth Barron

Even while the progressive agenda is foundering nationwide, New York City Democrats are holding course, steering their ship of folly directly toward the rocky shoals of incompetence, waste, and municipal misgovernance. The latest exhibit of Progressive absurdity was on display in Manhattan Criminal Court, where Venezuelan illegal alien Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was arraigned on a host of theft-related charges.

4 weeks ago | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Seth Barron

Once again, the United States has sat down with Iran for yet another round of nuclear negotiations — this time the fifth. And once again, we are told that there will be another round in the “near future.” Sound familiar? It should. Iran’s cat-and-mouse diplomatic theater is not a breakthrough; it is a rerun.

4 weeks ago | ruthfullyyours.com | Seth Barron |Ruth King

The Arc of History Bends Toward Thoughtcrime By Seth Barron https://tomklingenstein.com/the-arc-of-history-bends-toward-thoughtcrime/Before spilled blood had dried following the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, advocates for the Palestinians had preemptively designated the anticipated Israeli response a genocide.

1 month ago | city-journal.org | Seth Barron

Permitting noncitizens to vote has been an obsessive concern for New York City progressives for almost 20 years. Efforts to extend voting rights in municipal elections to noncitizens had failed repeatedly—until December 9, 2021, when the city council extended the vote to all “legal residents,” to great acclaim from advocates and sponsors of the legislation. The triumphant noise among progressives and the city’s expansive immigrant-rights nonprofit network was deafening.