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- The Women Excluded from Parsi Life May 23, 2025The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.Nev March
- Student Scapegoats May 23, 2025The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.Carl Skutsch
- Life’s Ancient Bottleneck May 21, 2025Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.Jack Lohmann
- The Women Excluded from Parsi Life May 23, 2025
- Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025Love of country in the time of Trump.Jay Nordlinger
- WFB & Co. May 12, 2025My time at NR has now come to an end. God bless you all.Jay Nordlinger
- The Conundrum of China Trade May 7, 2025A longstanding question, whose end is nowhere in sight.Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025
Monthly Archives: July 2017
The First Duty of Intelligent Men
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” George Orwell With Orwell’s aphorism in mind I am reminded of when I served as a juror in a trial. It was a criminal case … Continue reading
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Charlie Gard, Requiem in Pace
There was a time not so long ago when courts would intervene if parents refused to get medical help for a gravely ill minor child. Now, in England, we have the case of Charlie Gard. In that case the courts … Continue reading
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The Impeachable Mr. Trump
It is now beyond dispute that the Russian government of Vladimir Putin sought to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. That the Russian government tried to subvert the American political process should come as no surprise—they’ve been … Continue reading
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Trump’s Important Speech in Poland
Stranger things have happened. With storm clouds gathering speed over Russia, China, Iran and North Korea President Trump not only conducted himself like a grown-up, he delivered a speech in Poland that sounded positively Reaganesque. He delivered a much-needed affirmation … Continue reading
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The Unbearable Absurdities of Politics
The continuing absurdities of Progressive politics are on full display in New York City and Chicago. Let’s start with New York. Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway project will take riders between 96th and 63rd Street at a … Continue reading
The Korean Peninsula
The Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations all pretty much followed the same policy with respect to North Korea, which was to attempt to bribe North Korea into giving up its nuclear program in exchange for food and cash. Any remote … Continue reading