Writer and Conservative Commentator

Josh Gelernter

3 articles 2015–2016

Josh Gelernter is a writer and commentator who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2015 and 2016. His articles for the magazine addressed political and cultural topics, including gun rights, policing, and identity politics. He has also written for National Review and other conservative publications.

A Right to Keep and Drive Cars?

October 14, 2016 · Table of Contents, Cars, Second Amendment

After decades of futurists’ predictions, driverless cars are finally out on the streets—in limited commercial tests in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Pittsburgh. At the moment, they're still unreliable; for instance, a driverless Uber car in Pittsburgh took a shortcut the wrong way up a…

Identity Theft

January 22, 2016 · book reviews, Magazine, Josh Gelernter

I rarely read new books about the Holocaust. Spiking European antisemitism, campus harassment of Jewish students in America, and the stabbings in Israel more than fill my quota for bad Jewish news.

Unhinged Hatred of the Police

October 12, 2015 · Police, Magazine, Josh Gelernter

The murdering of policemen to protest alleged police targeting of black people is not a new phenomenon. Nor are chants like “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” which featured at a Black Lives Matter protest in August. In the 1960s and ’70s, the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army…