Steve Berman

Opinion Contributor

Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

Singing Kum-bah-yah While China Prepares For War | Steve Berman

Singing Kum-bah-yah While China Prepares For War | Steve Berman


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The more I read about climate change, the more I am concluding it’s a real thing. What’s not real is the Kum-bah-yah global cooperation statements produced by the poobahs that gather at conferences like COP26. None of them believe it, especially China and Russia. Read this important essay published in Foreign Affairs about the geopolitics of green energy. The relationship between …

Omicron: Camping in Maskville Forever | Steve Berman

Omicron: Camping in Maskville Forever | Steve Berman


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The “Omicron” variant has spread from South Africa, via…a Portuguese professional soccer team. The AP reports that 13 members of the Beleneses soccer club tested positive for Omicron after they traveled to South Africa. Dr. Anthony Fauci briefed President Biden on the new variant, then told CNN he needed more data before recommending a travel ban; afterward Biden signed a travel …

SHOTS FIRED: Goldberg Goes Full John Galt | Steve Berman

SHOTS FIRED: Goldberg Goes Full John Galt | Steve Berman


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Jonah Goldberg, a longtime Fox News contributor, who frequently appeared on panels seated next to the iconic Charles Krauthammer, has quit Fox, along with his partner at The Dispatch, Steve Hayes. The reason given for the sudden departure is Tucker Carlson’s subscription-only streaming series Patriot Purge, a pure fan fiction piece served up as an “exposé” of how …

RITTENHOUSE: To the Jury, Then the People | Steve Berman

RITTENHOUSE: To the Jury, Then the People | Steve Berman


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Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial in in the jury’s hands, and with it a whole lot of cultural cloth that has been woven around it. In case you haven’t been glued to the television, here’s where things sit: The prosecution contended that Rittenhouse intentionally killed Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz, recklessly killed Joseph Rosenbaum, and recklessly endangered …

WAR CRIME COVERUP: Did the U.S. Murder 70 Civilians in Syria in 2019? | Steve Berman

WAR CRIME COVERUP: Did the U.S. Murder 70 Civilians in Syria in 2019? | Steve Berman


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The New York Times broke a story over the weekend that in the waning days of the Syria campaign against ISIS, in 2019, the U.S. military killed dozens of civilians in a refugee camp called Baghuz, dropping a 500-pound bomb on a crowd of women and children. Then another jet dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on the survivors, …

Climate, They Say | Steve Berman

Climate, They Say | Steve Berman


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Anytime the glitterati gather in far-flung, exotic places—like Glasgow—to rub elbows and swap speeches, I know we’re about to hear the war chant of “BOHICA!” Bend over, here it comes again. And here we are again at the COP26 Climate Summit. Barack Obama gushed and preached about how urgent the climate crisis is. “It will not be …

WARNING: You Might Be Subject to the OSHA Mandate, Even If You’re Not | Steve Berman

WARNING: You Might Be Subject to the OSHA Mandate, Even If You’re Not | Steve Berman


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The object of President Biden’s OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on COVID-19 vaccination and testing is pain. If you’re already fully vaccinated, then the pain isn’t directed at you, but you might feel it anyway. If you are an employer with 100 or more employees, at all locations, you will be part of the new national mandate, …

Keep Your Knives Sharp | Steve Berman

Keep Your Knives Sharp | Steve Berman


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After Virginia’s debacle for Democrats, along with warning shots fired in New Jersey (a truck driver who spent $153 on his campaign as a Republican beat the most powerful Democrat in the New Jersey Senate, lol), the next phase is controlling the conversation, not—God forbid—introspection. In Virginia, Democrats occupied the cultural high ground and lost the tug of …