The Limits of Modernity

On this week's episode, co-hosts Aryeh Tepper and Greg Thomas delve into whether a robust center needs to be grounded in radical thought
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As the illiberal extremes increasingly assert their claims with passionate intensity, in their next episode, Straight Ahead co-hosts Aryeh Tepper and Greg Thomas explore the possibility that a robust center needs to be grounded in radical thought. Aryeh and Greg discuss Harvey…

Aryeh: Stanley Crouch Told Me He Said to Saul Bellow

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Straight Ahead: The Omni American Podcast looks forward to releasing our next episode, 'Machiavelli and the Soul,' tomorrow at 4:00 PM.

Join us as hosts Aryeh Tepper and Greg Thomas explore the possibility that a robust center needs to be grounded in radical thought.

If the 1979 Islamist revolution succeeded in Iran, it was because the secular left was so blinded by its anti-imperialist convictions that it couldn't recognize the encroachment of the new robed and turbaned authoritarians.

45 years later, US campuses show the same blindness.

The problem of a monochromatic view.

The Monochromatic View

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JUST NOW: Protestors at University of North Carolina turning violent, are knocking over fencing, and have pulled down the American flag to replace it with the Palestinian flag.

This is NOT peaceful.

One Ivy League university has successfully confronted the tensions and debate over the Israel-Palestine conflict: Dartmouth 🌲 University. In December, CBS' 60 Minutes reported on the protests on college campuses, including Columbia University.

To hear how Dartmouth accomplished this feat,…

In New Haven yesterday, protestors chanted in Arabic No God but Allah, the same words that appear on the ISIS flag. Few things are more terrifying than euphoric crowds who lose themselves and act like sheep. Ask your refugee neighbors, they’ll tell you how it ended for them.

What we are seeing here is protesters on American campuses, in 2024, spreading antizionist canards originating in Soviet Cold War propaganda. I wrote about this specific lie when I analyzed Mahmoud Abbas’s Soviet dissertation for Tablet Magazine. Abbas, of course, didn’t invent it…

Occupying a campus building, blocking students from attending classes, and vandalizing property is not protected by the First Amendment, full stop.

It’s illiberal. It’s illegal. And it should be punished.

“There are almost an unlimited number of ways in which students or other members of the University community can protest that violate no policies of the University at all; the spectrum of ways to express a viewpoint and seek to persuade others is vast. But establishing an…

A few words about the protests/encampments at Columbia:

Back in December 2018, when I was a junior, a white student named Julian Von Abele was filmed going on an ethno-centric rant about how much he loved white people. He said things like: “White people are the best thing that…

Acclaimed Iranian-Jewish-American writer and poet Roya Hakakian is featured on this episode of Straight Ahead: The Omni-American Podcast. Roya’s work mediates between the rise of Iran and the forces of Political Islam, on the one hand, and the Western world, especially the USA,…

Samara Joy & Emmet Cohen
I'm Old Fashioned
Emmet's Place, 2021

Samara Joy · Vocals
Emmet Cohen · Piano
Russell Hall · Bass
Kyle Poole · Drums

Today, at 4 pm EST, our Straight Ahead: The Omni-American Podcast podcast features the celebrated author, Roya Hakakian. Roya Hakakian