Tal Fortgang

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Tal Fortgang |Rafael A. Mangual |Carolyn D. Gorman

City Journal contributors Charles Fain Lehman, Tal Fortgang, Rafael Mangual, and Carolyn Gorman break down results from a new Manhattan Institute poll on New York City’s mayoral race. They also unpack the Israel–Iran conflict and the strange state of modern wedding culture. Audio TranscriptCharles Fain Lehman: The two top issues, collectively covering 51 percent of the electorate in the poll, were crime and public safety, so 26 percent, and housing costs, which is at 25 percent.

1 week ago | commentary.org | Tal Fortgang

If "a liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel," as Robert Frost put it, then a Jewish liberal must be someone who begs for his nation to take anti-Semitism seriously-and then condemns the president of the United States for obliging. American Jews have sounded the alarm on rising anti-Semitism for years, and the case was made when the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks spurred terrorist sympathizers in the West to take their bigotry to the streets.

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Tal Fortgang

There are other rights besides the right to free expression. In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered what would become a canonical statement about free speech limits: The First Amendment does not protect “falsely shouting fire in a theatre.” That it remains such a popular (if misquoted) phrase is a bit odd, and grates on legal scholars who know that the “clear and present danger” standard the phrase buttressed is legally insignificant. The Schenck v.

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Tal Fortgang

In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered what would become a canonical statement about free speech limits: The First Amendment does not protect “falsely shouting fire in a theatre.” That it remains such a popular (if misquoted) phrase is a bit odd, and grates on legal scholars who know that the “clear and present danger” standard the phrase buttressed is legally insignificant. The Schenck v.

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Ilya Shapiro |Tal Fortgang

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor, is challenging Colorado’s Minor Conversion Therapy Law (MCTL), which prohibits mental health professionals from providing “conversion therapy” to minor clients. “Conversion therapy” is statutorily defined as “any practice or treatment . . .