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- The New Middle East January 1, 2025The Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 set a series of events in motion that have shifted the balance of power in the region in a way the terrorists themselves never intended.Benny Morris
- Unmasked and Anonymous January 1, 2025A brief history of Bob Dylan on screen.Benjamin Kerstein
- A New Year’s Message from the Managing Editor December 31, 2024The watchwords for this year are clarity and calm.Iona Italia
- The New Middle East January 1, 2025
- Jay Nordlinger
- Caring Less, and More December 31, 2024Reader mail on a classic American idiom: “I could care less.”Jay Nordlinger
- The West under Attack December 31, 2024On a podcast with international-affairs analyst Ivana Stradner.Jay Nordlinger
- Mrs. Assad, &c. December 31, 2024On Syria, North Korea, Matt Gaetz, laboratories of democracy, butterfly-collecting, a Detroit slugger, and more.Jay Nordlinger
- Caring Less, and More December 31, 2024
Category Archives: Culture
Christopher Hitchens on Reparations
Christopher Hitches was a writer and polemicist with extraordinary talents who, in December of 2011, died much too early at age 62. An iconoclast throughout his adult life, Hitchens eventually drifted away from the left — early on he was … Continue reading
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Progressive Anti-Semitism: The Triumph of Evil?
Photo by Johnathan Ernst / Reuters Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is at it again. The latest uproar was sparked by her use of a standard anti-semitic slur in which she complained about the supposed “dual loyalty” of American Jews. Previously, … Continue reading
In Her Own Words
Formerly known as Sandy the Barmaid, now known as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we have a representative who is positively Trumpian in her grandiosity and ignorance. After she secured all of 15,847 votes to win her Congressional seat, she reportedly said … Continue reading
Another Day, Another Hoax
The hoax perpetrated by Jussie Smollet, an actor in the TV series Empire, provides a window into the widening chasm between reality and the mainstream media. Consider: Smollet claimed he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop at 2:30 … Continue reading
The Progressive Governor Northam
Ralph Northam was elected governor of Virginia in 2017. During the campaign Northam routinely denounced his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, accusing him of being a racist. Now an incendiary photo of two men has surfaced from Northam’s medical school yearbook. … Continue reading
The New (Old) Puritans
If there is any question that the new puritans of the regulatory state are a bunch of fanatics, this video from John Stossel should remove all doubt. JFB
Richard Milhous Trump
The political commentariat has spilled a lot of ink trying to understand what the Trump phenomenon is all about. But no one has come up with a convincing story about why it is that candidate, and then President Trump has … Continue reading
Asides…
One of the favorite progressive hobby horses is to wail about voter turnout, or the lack thereof. And so periodically we are treated to assertions that Republicans systematically suppress the vote, especially of minorities, as an electoral strategy. Needless to … Continue reading
Where’s the Outrage?
In 1996 the GOP candidate for President, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, used to tick off a laundry list of horribles mostly having to do with charges that President Clinton was sleazy and that a biased liberal press was protecting … Continue reading
Our Core Values
Ex President Barack Obama has emerged to denounce current President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Obama’s executive order known as DACA. The decision, according to Mr. Obama, did not constitute a “legal requirement”. It was, he opined, “…a political decision, … Continue reading