Philip Carl Salzman

Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

No, Mr. Mayor, Outside Organizers Are Not Responsible for Student Radicalism

While there are malevolent outside actors doing what they can with universities, the influential corruption is internal.

Viewpoints May 6, 2024
What Lies Behind Student Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel, and Anti-Semitic Uprisings?

Commentary The sudden uprising of university students across North America in support of Hamas and allegedly about the ...

Viewpoints April 29, 2024
Philip Carl Salzman: Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?

Commentary As mobs rampage through American and Canadian streets celebrating and championing Hamas and its genocidal anti-Semitism, disrupting ...

Viewpoints March 12, 2024
Philip Carl Salzman: The Far Left and Far Right Converge in Hating Jews and Israel

Commentary They might not agree on much else, but the political far left and the far right strive ...

Viewpoints January 6, 2024
Philip Carl Salzman: Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young Americans?

Commentary In a recent Free Press article, “We Were Taught to Hate Jews,” five individuals from Muslim families ...

Viewpoints December 22, 2023
Does Academic Freedom Protect Genocidal Anti-Semitism?

Commentary American and Canadian university campuses rang for weeks on end with celebrations of Hamas’s “great victory” of ...

Viewpoints December 9, 2023
Have American Jews Betrayed Israel and Themselves?

Leftist Jews who support Israel are now outcasts from leftist communities, organizations, and events.

Viewpoints October 23, 2023
Who Now Still Believes in Our Universities?

If you wonder why university students celebrate the barbaric atrocities of Hamas, the lies of postcolonial theory and ...

Viewpoints October 18, 2023
Official Anti-Semitism Marks the Demise of Anthropology

Commentary Betraying the premises and ethics of anthropology, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has thrown its weight behind ...

Viewpoints August 13, 2023
Anti-White Racism Harms Us All

Commentary Justifying one form of racism justifies all forms of racism, historical and to be invented. All advocates ...

Viewpoints April 7, 2023
How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs

Commentary Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. ...

Viewpoints March 14, 2023
What I Learned When Students Tried to Cancel Me

Commentary Even being attacked can be educational and enlightening. In November 2020, eight official student groups published a ...

Viewpoints February 7, 2023
How the Fight for ‘Social Justice’ Leads to Premodern Hell

Commentary Prioritizing the fight for “social justice” or any other version of “justice” is a guarantee of unending ...

Viewpoints January 31, 2023
Do You Still Believe That Canadians Have Rights and Freedoms?

Commentary Canadians learned during the last years that they are completely and totally at the mercy of government ...

Viewpoints October 26, 2022
Hate and Fear Are Now Major Motivators on Campus

Commentary Almost every university in North America has committed to what is called “social justice,” which is the ...

Viewpoints October 11, 2022
Our Deluded Leaders Ignore Reality and Ensure Disaster

Commentary Do you think that without electricity you can charge an electric car? The governor of California Gavin ...

Viewpoints October 6, 2022
National Suicide by Education

Commentary It's true that children are our future, for good or ill, depending on their education. Ill-educate children, ...

Viewpoints September 16, 2022
University Professors Love ‘Social Justice’ and Critical Race Theory, but Hate Israel

Commentary The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) earlier this year courageously took a stand against “threats to ...

Viewpoints September 12, 2022
‘Woke’ Ideology Is the Way the Elite Says They’re Superior to You

Commentary What do you think “virtue signaling” is about? The point of it is to claim superiority for ...

Viewpoints August 30, 2022
Is Diversity Our Strength? Please.

Commentary In response to a question about the Minneapolis policy to first fire white teachers before BIPOC (black, ...

Viewpoints August 22, 2022
What Does Your Identity Entitle You To?

Commentary Humans are an imaginative species. Our minds are not limited to the bounds of reality or even ...

Viewpoints August 18, 2022
Trudeau and Biden Policies Serve Beijing’s Interests

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appear to be doing all they can ...

Viewpoints August 15, 2022
Deterrence at Home and Abroad

Commentary In Switzerland, there are statues in honor of generals, not because they won battles or wars, but ...

Viewpoints August 1, 2022
Why We Don’t Have Children Anymore

Commentary In traditional subsistence production societies, children are valuable assets. People need and want many children. In contemporary ...

Viewpoints July 28, 2022
Whatever Happened to Anthropology?

Commentary Once a field of serious academic research and study, anthropology has devolved into a virtue-signaling celebration of ...

Viewpoints July 24, 2022
Philip Carl Salzman: Canada Gone Wrong

Commentary Canadians tend to please themselves by feeling superior to the Americans: Americans are violent; we are peaceful. ...

Viewpoints July 15, 2022
What Does an Abortion Ban Mean for Men?

Commentary With the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade and ...

Viewpoints July 14, 2022