Seth Mandel
Latest Articles
Team Obama’s smear machine-in-exile mobilizes to destroy Iran-deal critics
"John Bolton is at the nexus of Russia’s interference in our democracy and the NRA’s reckless agenda": The sentence is so bonkers, so pristine in its conspiratorial insanity that it...
Dems’ ‘reckoning’ with Bill’s sexual offenses is the final nail in the Clintons’ coffin
I arrived at the Barnes & Noble just as “An Evening With Bernie Sanders” was drawing to a close, and while browsing, I couldn’t help but notice: The 20-somethings filing...
Trump's generals and the grim ghosts of Christmas future
It’s not even Thanksgiving and we’ve already received a visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Future — specters who serve as a warning to critics clamoring for President Trump’s top...
Tom Petty's crusade to save rock from the cynics and fat cats
Tom Petty was the right kind of cliché. And oh, how it hurts to write “was.” The classic rock icon who died Monday at 66 was the embodiment of the...
The secret of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy
What does Son of Sam have to do with New York public education? More than you’d expect — and I swear this isn’t a joke about unfireable teachers in rubber...
The obscene effort to shame 'Trump's Jews'
Allow me a moment of pride: The hot new criticism of my fellow Jews is that we don’t complain enough. Really. A host of pundits, concerned about President Trump’s baffling...
The literary left's anti-celebration of Jerusalem's liberation
The literary elite is using the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem to make Israel’s greatest victory synonymous with tragedy. It’s the new “nakba,” that being the Arabic word...
The terrifying moment when my wife gave birth in our car
It was early Friday morning, and my wife Bethany and I were passing through South Brunswick, NJ, on Route 1 South when she turned to me from the passenger seat....
Penn Station is hell and they won't even hint at an escape
In the classic 1981 film “Escape From New York,” Manhattan circa 1997 has been turned into a giant federal prison with all exit routes blocked. Anyone relying on Penn Station...
How Republicans can regroup on health care
War is over — if you want it. The Republicans’ seven-year-long battle to simply repeal ObamaCare is dead. Pretending otherwise, like the Japanese holdouts who refused to surrender after World...
Protest music deserves better than Katy Perry
Guess what — there’s something even more vapid than Katy Perry’s pop music: Katy Perry’s protest music. Sorry to be harsh. Perry’s a pop superstar, but as a lyricist she...
What the poser punks of Green Day can learn from the Sex Pistols
The reports of punk rock’s resurrection are greatly exaggerated. “The Trump Administration May Be The Best Thing For The Punk Scene,” blares a BuzzFeed headline. “Trump makes political music great...
The left is melting down over Trump's pro-Israel ambassador
There’s something oddly comforting about the unhinged freakout greeting President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for US ambassador to Israel — but something discomfiting, too. The reassuring part is the fact that...
Hillary's loss accelerates the Democrats' turn against Israel
Israel’s supporters were hoping Hillary Clinton could forestall the Democratic Party’s seemingly inevitable turn against the Jewish state. Clinton’s loss last week means we’re officially après Hillary — and must...
How Obama's kicking Israel on his way out of office
When President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet Wednesday in New York, the usual awkwardness will likely be worse. That’s because Obama has just forced Bibi to agree...
Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again in new bio of 43rd president
Bush Derangement Syndrome claims another victim. The malady, identified and defined by Charles Krauthammer as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the...
How AIPAC is betraying Israel
It turns out the fearsome American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a paper tiger — and one that will throw Israel under the bus for its pals in the Democratic...
Endorsing Hillary is the just latest sign that Warren is a fraud
American politics may have no bigger fraud than Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren. So I got a good chuckle from Politico’s Thursday story saying the Massachusetts Democratic senator had called Donald Trump,...
Obama's Iran 'echo chamber' just can't stop
After top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes made waves by admitting the administration manipulated an “echo chamber” of allies to sell the Iran nuclear deal, you might have expected the echoes...
The silly plan to draft Gen. Mattis shows what's wrong with GOP
Warrior Monk is not going to be President Monk. So what’s up with the drive to draft him? Retired four-star Gen. James Mattis — known as “warrior monk” to some,...