Corey Friedman, Columnist

Corey Friedman, Columnist

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Corey Friedman is an award-winning opinion journalist who specializes in solutions-based commentary on politics, open government and First Amendment issues.

Trigger Warning: This Won't Be Helpful, by Corey Friedman 10/05/2021

Trigger warnings are ineffective and potentially harmful. The research is robust, and any serious scholar who says it's inconclusive is either uninformed or lying through chattering teeth.

Trigger Warning: This Won't Be Helpful, by Corey Friedman As they write next semester's syllabus, some professors will make a cynical calculation: It's better to risk regression while seeming compassionate than to support recovery and endure complaints. No matter the course material — history, political science, biology, law — they'll lard up the lesso...

Virtue Signaling Causes Ice Cream Headache, by Corey Friedman 07/24/2021

The boycott battle swirling around the United States' No. 1 ice cream brand isn't really about corporate responsibility, consumer ethics or even foreign policy. It's little more than an excuse for virtue signaling on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Airier than over-whipped ice cream, the debate elevates symbolism over substance.

Virtue Signaling Causes Ice Cream Headache, by Corey Friedman Filling your freezer with Ben & Jerry's won't improve prospects for Palestinian statehood, and denying yourself that pint of Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey does nothing to defend Israel's right to exist. The boycott battle swirling around the United States' No.

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