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- Searching for Presidential Rhetoric October 8, 2024Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.Robert C. Thornett
- Over-Learning the Lessons of Iraq October 8, 2024Russia, Iran, and the failure of US resolve.Oscar Clarke
- Towards a Post-Hamas Future October 7, 2024The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way.John Aziz
- Searching for Presidential Rhetoric October 8, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Words, Weather, Etc. October 8, 2024On pronouns, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a podcast with Buckley Fellows, and more.
- Remembering a Red terror, &c. October 8, 2024On Mao’s Cultural Revolution; hurricanes and politics; the pronouns thing; ‘Latinx’; Steph Curry; and more.
- ‘I Live in Accordance with My Conscience’ October 7, 2024The life and death of Ildar Dadin, a Russian foe of Putin and Putinism.
- Words, Weather, Etc. October 8, 2024
Monthly Archives: May 2024
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A lot of liberals are up-in-arms (figuratively speaking) about Justice Sam Alito (yet again). They cite 2 related reasons as proximate causes for their angst. (1) Three years ago, Justice Alito’s wife hung an upside down flag in front of … Continue reading
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Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?
At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading
Are Liberalism and Progressivism Compatible?
Robert Frost , the American poet, once observed that “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel”. Which brings up an interesting question. Can American liberals differentiate their traditional brand of liberalism from … Continue reading
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Problem Solving 2024 Style
If the proverbial Martian were to land on planet earth and peruse the news he would quickly discover that the United States currently has several severe, possibly existential problems with which it has to deal. According to the news, the … Continue reading
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Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.
Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified. A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading