Yair Rosenberg

A Gorgeous Video Game That’s Also Very Jewish The ‘Eternal Life of Goldman’ is the rare video game to feature a distinctly Jewish protagonist

The Eternal Life of Goldman is one of the most beautiful games of 2026. It's also nice to finally see some video-game representation for people like me: aging Jews with back problems.

For this week's column, I spoke to the director of this stunning platformer: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Removing a Hyphen Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism Symbolic gestures aren’t what’s needed in the fight against anti-Jewish bigotry.

As a rule, I just use the spelling of the style guide of whatever publication I am writing for, so I've done it both ways. On social media, I generally remove the hyphen to save characters! I've actually written about why I do not think the hyphen makes a substantive difference one way or the other:

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

In 1862, General Ulysses Grant expelled Jews from his military district during the Civil War, a move reversed by President Lincoln. In 2026, Candace Owens praised Grant’s expulsion. And this week, a now ex-member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wouldn’t tell me whether that was antisemitic.

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

I talked to Carrie Prejean Boller about the attempts to remove her from Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, why she rejects charges of anti-Semitism, her views on Zionism, and why she insists Candace Owens has never said anything anti-Semitic. I recommend reading to the end. It takes a turn.

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Is that still going, by any chance? Would love to take a look!

Love my XReal glasses! I suspect that as the price point comes down, these are going to start showing up everywhere, because they do what people actually want (a portable big screen for movies/TV/video games) rather than what VR products often tell users they should want.

This is endemic to social media and makes having thoughtful, effective conversations on here very difficult. You should follow people who respect you enough to tell you the truth, rather than those who think truth is unimportant and pursue other personal and political agendas.

As long as you never expose yourself to someone’s antisemitism you can just pretend it’s not real!

Current state of things, cont'd bsky.app/profile/yair...

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

In 1862, General Ulysses Grant expelled Jews from his military district during the Civil War, a move reversed by President Lincoln. In 2026, Candace Owens praised Grant’s expulsion. And this week, a now ex-member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wouldn’t tell me whether that was antisemitic.

"I offered to play Boller the audio of this [Candace Owens] remark in its full context. She declined to listen." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

I talked to Carrie Prejean Boller about the attempts to remove her from Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, why she rejects charges of anti-Semitism, her views on Zionism, and why she insists Candace Owens has never said anything anti-Semitic. I recommend reading to the end. It takes a turn.

The Second Death of Charlie Kirk The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.

"Charlie Kirk’s assassin didn’t kill just one man; he destabilized the entire Trump coalition by removing a pivotal person who had been holding it together. In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement."

The Second Death of Charlie Kirk The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.

A great piece from @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social on how Charlie Kirk’s assassination unleashed infighting among maga elites www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I've been working on this one for a while. It's about how we got here, and where we're going. I hope you'll read it to the end. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is extremely informative and brilliantly written. And, it's free.

Absolutely great piece that absolutely should be read to the end.

The Second Death of Charlie Kirk The activist’s assassination unleashed anti-Semitism that is pulling the Trump coalition apart.

"Charlie Kirk’s assassin didn’t kill just one man; he destabilized the entire Trump coalition by removing a pivotal person who had been holding it together. In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement."

That is definitely not what the article says (though it suggests that this may have been what *Kirk himself* believed). The piece points out the problems with that! I've written for years about the toxicity of conspiracy theories, and how they destroy democracies and those who embrace them.

I thought that exchange was extremely revealing and recommend folks with the time watch it in full. It's even more striking in full context.

I've been working on this one for a while. It's about how we got here, and where we're going. I hope you'll read it to the end. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

haha you don't know the pandora's box (pun not intended) you've just opened. the secret to good AI music is really just "give the AI a good original composition and have it elaborate on it". Otherwise, it's a slot machine that turns out a gem once every 500 generations. Collaborator, not originator.

Yeah, this is key. I play around quite a bit with AI music generation, and periodically listen to what other people on the platform are creating, and it's striking how there is still no substitute for taste and experience when it comes to figuring out whether you've made something good.

Have You Considered Not Polluting the Water? The tech industry will do anything to solve our loneliness epidemic except stop causing it in the first place.

I wrote about this phenomenon of Silicon Valley selling solutions to problems its own products caused back in September. Once you look, you see it everywhere.

X gives blue checkmark and engagement dollars to white nationalist fabricating racist quotes and falsely attributing them to real rabbis. Then X's bot tells white nationalists that the quote isn't true. Causing a disease, then selling the cure -- the tech story of our time.

Trump’s base isn’t abandoning him—but several groups have an interest in pushing the claim that they are, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/zjU2SoNz

Great to join @pantsuitpolitics.skystack.xyz again, this time to discuss the forces driving the age divide on antisemitism, how prejudice imposes a no-win dynamic, and how to cover Israel as an actual country, rather than a positively or negatively charged symbol. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...