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- After the Ceasefire December 11, 2024The new state of play in Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas, following the US-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon, the weakening of Hezbollah, and the fall of Bashar al-Assad.Benny Morris
- No Good Deed December 10, 2024In which an unsuspecting Quillette editor strolls Dublin’s historic streets, only to become ensnared in an unwholesome nocturnal intrigue.Jonathan Kay
- The Year of Elections December 9, 2024An unprecedented number of elections took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America this year. Their results suggest that prospects for democracy are mixed.Imran Shamsunahar
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- Assad Rule, Over (Apparently) December 8, 2024Since 1970, only two men have ruled Syria: father and son.
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Category Archives: Policy
A Campaign About Nothing
Now that the Republican Convention has concluded and we are two days into the Democratic Convention, absent any surprises, we can safely say that we have a presidential campaign about nothing. For instance, can any one honestly say that we … Continue reading
Modern v. Classical Liberals
“Governments are living things and operate as organic wholes. Moreover, governments have their natural evolution and are one thing in one age, another in another. The makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances … 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
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
Trump Strikes Again
We are back from Bordeaux and guess who is in the news? Bad ideas never die. They just bide their time. The latest version of this truism is brought to us, naturally enough, by a Presidential contender. This time around … Continue reading
The State of Play
Question: What are the serious challenges the United States currently faces? Hint: The answer does not include specifying pronouns. The answers should be more than obvious. (1) America faces perhaps the most important foreign policy challenges it has ever faced. … Continue reading
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Free Speech
A bipartisan group of 74 Congressman urged Harvard, MIT and UPenn to dismiss their respective presidents a few days after their Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. Representatives Elise Stefanik (R., NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla) actually co-authored a letter … Continue reading
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Progressive Good Crime
Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading
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Ben Sasse for President
We are once again faced with the question of whether it is worth voting in the Presidential race and if so, for whom. Before considering any particular candidate, let’s have a look at the question of why vote at all. … Continue reading