Jonathan Alpert
ON THE RECORD · 8 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“Resilience isn’t pretending you’re fine. It’s being able to hurt and still live your life,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert defined resilience as being able to hurt while still living your life.
“Socialism may be an economic philosophy, but the culture surrounding this version of it goes much further. Personal problems become political problems, and individual responsibility gets pushed aside in favor of identifying the system or group supposedly responsible,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert said the culture surrounding this version of socialism turns personal problems into political problems.
“As a psychotherapist, I think there’s a psychological cost to that. If you teach people to interpret uncomfortable information as an attack, they become less willing to hear things they may need to hear. Sometimes a doctor telling you that you need to lose weight or change your diet isn’t racism, oppression or an attempt to control your body. It’s medical advice,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert argued that teaching people to interpret medical advice as oppression carries a psychological cost.
“That fits neatly into the worldview being promoted at a conference like this. Instead of seeing people primarily as individuals who make choices and have some responsibility for their lives, everything gets explained through systems, identity and power,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert criticized the worldview promoted at the conference for explaining everything through systems, identity, and power.
“One of the hardest parts of grief is that your mind races ahead, filling you with anxiety. How am I going to do this for the next year? How am I going to raise my kids without this person? What are holidays going to look like? How do I build a life I never expected to be living? Suddenly you’re trying to solve the rest of your life at the worst possible moment. Sometimes you really do need to shrink the window and just get through the next 15 minutes,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert told Fox News Digital that grief causes the mind to race ahead with anxiety and that shrinking the time window can help.
“We’re seeing more and more ordinary issues viewed through the same lens: Who has power? Who’s oppressed? How does race factor into it? Now even a conversation with your doctor about weight or diet can be framed as a form of oppression,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert said ordinary issues are increasingly being viewed through lenses of power, oppression, and race.
“There are fair criticisms of BMI and how it’s used. But calling it ‘body fascism’ is what happens when ideology gets inserted into almost every part of life,”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert told Fox News Digital that Harrison's comments reflect ideology being inserted into everyday life.
“Erika’s piece shows that those two things can exist at the same time.”
Jonathan Alpert · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-07
Alpert said Kirk's essay demonstrates that hurting and living can coexist.