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Don Feder

Don Feder is a graduate of Boston University College of Liberal Arts and BU Law School. He’s admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts. For 19 years, he was an editorialist and staff columnist for the Boston Herald, New England’s second-largest newspaper. During those years, the Herald published over 2,000 of his columns. Mr. Feder is currently a consultant and coalitions director of the Ruth Institute.

Columns by Don Feder

Finding brains in America: Are we getting dumber?

A line from the movie "Forrest Gump" -- "Stupid is as stupid does" -- should be the motto of Generation Z.

August 2, 2026

Do Democrats hate Israel because they hate God?

Is there a connection between Democrats' growing animosity toward Israel and their rejection of God?

July 26, 2026

Fight communism now — or buy a parrot

When I was a conservative student in the 1960s, I thought the war with communism was thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia and 90 miles off the coast in Cuba.

July 19, 2026

Islam has no place in America’s public life

What starts in California usually does not stop in California, sad to say.

July 12, 2026

Between the Declaration of Independence and the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ only one will prevail

We have a choice between two conflicting worldviews: one of freedom and dignity, the other of a regimented society based on submission to the ideology of a ruling elite.

July 5, 2026

America’s 250th birthday asks what freedom still means

On the 250th anniversary of our independence, we should ask what America means.

June 28, 2026

Happy non-gestating parents day

Leftists tell us that when it comes to family life, men have to step up to the plate, do their duty and shoulder their share of the burden.

June 21, 2026

Democratic-run cities become graveyards of civilization

In Will and Ariel Durant's 11-volume "History of Civilization," the authors describe how civilization began in the cities of ancient Mesopotamia. It will probably end in the cities of modern America.

June 14, 2026

America’s failure to understand totalitarian regimes could be fatal

President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "crazy" in a phone conversation last week about Israel's strikes against Hezbollah, Iran's terrorist proxy in Lebanon.

June 7, 2026

Western civilization will not survive ‘suicidal empathy’

I recently saw the wonderful 1962 movie, "How the West Was Won," which dramatized the westward expansion from the Erie Canal to the closing of the frontier.

May 31, 2026

War is hell, and peace can be bad too

War has dominated human history. The best we can do is to minimize its impact.

May 24, 2026

My time in Cuba helped me understand the island’s suffering

The only thing Washington and Havana have to talk about is how soon the communists can pack their bags and leave.

May 17, 2026

Falling fertility: The world could end in empty cradles

Generation Z is easily the most self-absorbed, egocentric generation in history.

May 10, 2026

Cole Tomas Allen and the nature of evil

In thinking about Cole Tomas Allen, the man charged with attempting to assassinate the president last month, I keep coming back to historian Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil."

May 3, 2026

‘The Godfather’ logic key to understanding Iran’s nuclear-weapons quest

In "The Godfather," after Virgil Sollozzo fails to kill the don at the hospital, Sonny Corleone, who is temporarily in charge of the family, says the drug kingpin now wants to negotiate a truce.

April 26, 2026

Pope Leo XIV’s ‘Denial of Reality’ tour

Pope Leo XIV and President Trump aren't bosom buddies. The president says the pope is "weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy."

April 19, 2026

Marxist sexual revolution fuels excess and instability but younger generations push back

Some images you can't get out of your head, no matter how hard you try. One is a photo of Bryon Noem, the husband of Kristi Noem, as a cross-dresser with obscenely large fake bosoms.

April 12, 2026