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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

Socialists want to destroy the American dream

We are now less than a month away from the 2026 midterm elections.

October 4, 2026

Gaza, a convenient excuse to hate Jews

Who would have thought that a day on which 1,200 Jews were murdered -- the largest one-day Jewish death toll since the Holocaust -- would lead to an upsurge of antisemitism?

September 27, 2026

On Yom Kippur, America needs atonement

Yom Kippur, which began at sundown Sunday, is Judaism's holiest day.

September 20, 2026

Gloria Steinem’s war on marriage, family started at home

Gloria Steinem, who died on Sept. 2 at age 92, did not liberate women.

September 13, 2026

At 250, America faces the signs of civilizational decline

Historian Will Durant in his monumental "The Story of Civilization" warned, "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." We're working on it.

September 6, 2026

Complaints of White privilege are a losers’ lament

From the basketball court to the Smithsonian museums in Washington to Cambridge University in Britain, accusations of White privilege are becoming as thick as flies on a decaying carcass.

August 30, 2026

Luigi Mangione puts a human face on evil

In Luigi Mangione -- who confessed in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson -- we see the grinning face of evil staring at us from the abyss.

August 23, 2026

DSA’s rise carries a warning for American Jews

If you were a Jew living in the Weimer Republic during National Socialism's rise to power, would you be at all concerned?

August 16, 2026

Democrats futile search for manly candidates

The Democratic Party is involved in a bizarre and ultimately futile search for male candidates.

August 9, 2026

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