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

Mothers are the gateway to tomorrow

Mother's Day should be about more than cards and candy, flowers and fine sentiments. As we move into the desolate wasteland of demographic winter, mothers assume a role of paramount importance. Published May 14, 2023

Fight for Jewish survival is fight for Western civilization

Anniversaries are opportunities to put historical events in perspective. Published May 6, 2023

Crisis of character is at the root of America’s national decline

Crises, crises everywhere, as far as the eye can see. Published April 28, 2023

Left insists on its right to brainwash your children

Growing parental involvement in education terrifies the left, which will brook no interference with its designs on our children. Published April 21, 2023

Democrats are taking us to mob rule

"Mobocracy" is a word that should inspire fear. Increasingly, however, it's a reality of life in 21st-century America. Published April 16, 2023

Religion or moral anarchy?

Sunday was Easter. Passover ends on Thursday. What better time to consider the role of religion in American life and where its absence will inevitably lead us? Published April 8, 2023

Left-wing antisemitism and Randi Weingarten’s Jewish conspiracy theories

Like her hero, President Biden, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten uses talking points totally detached from reality. Published April 1, 2023

Corrupting our children is one of the left’s favorite tactics

The enemies of civilization, the army of the "woke," are sadists -- period. Published March 25, 2023

Jane Fonda — A Messiah indifferent to the suffering she’s caused

She's been called Hanoi Jane and Joan of Woke. Jane Fonda, doyenne of the Hollywood left, has almost 60 years of left-wing activism under her Gucci belt. Published March 18, 2023

In blue states, ballots can be more deadly than bullets

Sometimes I imagine a voter walking into a polling place in a deep-blue city or state and being accosted by a Democratic operative. Published March 12, 2023

Demographic train wreck: Will Japan throw its old people on the tracks?

It didn't take long to start heading where no civilized people should go. A Japanese professor at Yale is talking about euthanasia for his country's growing population of older adults. Published March 4, 2023

Academic antisemitism is part of woke war on Western civilization

Like a fast-spreading poisonous weed, antisemitism seems to be everywhere -- in places where you'd expect to find it and those where you might not. Published February 25, 2023

In Biden’s America, common ground does not exist

As another presidential election approaches, the siren song of unity begins. Published February 17, 2023

Decline of marriage advances the leftist revolution

National Marriage Week is Feb. 7-14. World Marriage Day coincides with Valentine's Day. While well-intentioned, both are ultimately whistling past the graveyard. Published February 11, 2023

Left wants to restrict every activity except abortion and sex

Abortion is the most contentious issue confronting Americans - and not only because it's a matter of life and death. Published February 5, 2023

Snake oil reparations have no expiration date

I once did a talk show on reparations with a Black activist who angrily informed me, "Your grandfather raped my grandmother." Published January 29, 2023

Political left dupes those ignorant of history

The world lost a great historian, and America lost a great friend when Paul Johnson died this month at age 94. Published January 23, 2023

Drag queens won’t win the next war

The model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who is said to have 30 million followers on Instagram, kvetches that she seems to attract only "emasculated men." Published January 15, 2023

Politicians lying is nothing new, worry about those who can’t tell fact from fiction

The strange case of Rep.-elect George Santos highlights the tendency of politicians to "embellish their resumes" -- otherwise known as lying. Published January 7, 2023