Katya Sedgwick is a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, City Journal, the American Conservative, the American Mind, Legal Insurrection, and many other publications.
Posts by Katya Sedgwick
October 28, 2025
To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s
Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West.
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September 04, 2025
Taylor Swift’s long-anticipated engagement to Travis Kelce has predictably dominated the recent news cycle. Wedding bells have been ringing in editorial rooms ever since the two started dating in 2023, so when Kelce finally proposed, photos of the Kansas City Chief All-Pro embracing the pop star jumped from screen to screen, prompting a myriad of think pieces.
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April 23, 2025
When British author Douglas Murray debated comedian Dave Smith and podcaster Joe Rogan on the latter’s show, many in the audience expressed frustration that Murray didn’t make certain points in defense of Israel he’s made in the past and could easily have brought up again.
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January 23, 2025
TikTok was developed as a Chinese-government digital product marketed to Western youth and operated under a secretive algorithm. It promoted anti-American narratives—from lavishing praise on Osama bin Laden to pushing transgender hype—but its chief purpose was probably data-mining.
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August 15, 2024
Незнакомые смотрят волками,
И один из них, может быть, я.
—Борис Гребенщиков
Strangers glare like wolves,
And I might be one of them.
—Boris Grebenshikov
The Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz entered the national scene with a passive-aggressive endorsement of government-run economic activity.
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July 24, 2024
When the IDF began amassing in Gaza in the aftermath of the 10/7 massacre and Americans started taking sides, several social media influencers pointedly asked their followers to name some Israeli and Palestinian inventions without googling.
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May 09, 2024
The turmoil on American campuses today has nothing to do with free speech. Rather, it uses free speech as an appeal to a Boomer trope—but it’s the wrong trope to use in this case.
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April 10, 2024
Given that contemporary pop music is stagnant, Beyoncé’s country-inspired album
Cowboy Carter was bound to be something of a sensation. Its chief significance is not aesthetic—the recordings are simultaneously too slick and underdeveloped.
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