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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

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

Paul Ehrlich was the Karl Marx of population control

Paul Ehrlich, who passed away last month at age 93, was Karl Marx 2.0.

April 5, 2026

Passover and antisemitism: From pharaoh to Fuentes

They used to say that the only two things certain in life are death and taxes. They forgot antisemitism.

March 29, 2026

White supremacy, the latest race hustle

The war on White supremacy is recycled Marxism.

March 22, 2026

Hollywood trades faith, family and heroism for violence, sex and despair

This evening, at the 98th annual Academy Awards ceremony, Hollywood will do what it does best, celebrate itself.

March 15, 2026

The choice was clear: Bomb Iran or build fallout shelters

They whine ceaselessly about endless wars. They say our action against Iran's murderous theocracy is clearly unconstitutional. Make no mistake: Democrats want America to lose this war.

March 8, 2026

Transgenderism: An attack on reality

Liberalism is based on a denial of reality. John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things." For the political left, facts are meaningless and evidence is irrelevant.

March 1, 2026