Charles D. Dunst is a senior at Hamilton College, where is pursuing a degree in World Politics and currently working on an honor’s thesis discussing the inclusion of due process procedures in counterterrorism. At Hamilton, he serves as Editor in Chief of the College’s student newspaper, The Spectator. He can be found on Twitter @cddunst
“We’ve stopped the government’s attacks on our Judeo-Christian values,” President Trump said at a campaign rally and makeshift Roy Moore endorsement speech in Pensacola on December 8. “We don’t worship government, we worship God,” the President continued. Trump has used the exact same phrasing in previous speeches. “We don’t worship government, we worship God,” he…
In an August 15 speech, the President of the United States equated actual American Nazis with liberal counter-protestors. Throughout his campaign and his nascent administration, President Donald Trump has ideologically and materially aided neo-Nazis and other hate groups with anti-Semitic goals and values. When asked if he thought the alt left was the same as…
For years, the horrors of the Holocaust were demonstrated to the public through the stories of victims and the soldiers who liberated them. Speeches by Holocaust victims used to pack arenas on college campuses across the nation. Few college students secured their cap and gown without hearing a survivor speak on their campus. These survivors…
As a young Jew growing up in New York, anti-Semitism, for the most part, was an issue of the past. Jewish suffering now serves as a template for others faced with similar discrimination rather than a daily reality. The suffering of six million Jews is utilized to justify political positions on the Syrian refugee crisis,…
“He’s a Nazi.” “This is just as bad as the Holocaust.” Outrage like this has seemingly become the norm within American political discourse. Whenever a policy seems crass— or someone sees the specter of fascism— the American public is quick to deem the perpetrator to be Nazi. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy on the…
Through family connections and a stroke of luck, I was able to attend the 2016 White House Hanukkah party – the final such event for the Obamas. The White House Hanukkah Party is, simply put, an unbelievably odd event. The entire Presidential compound is presented in its Christmas morning attire –- with the exception of…
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