National Review- Quillette
- The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza December 1, 2023For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.Robert C. Thornett
- “There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History” December 1, 2023An interview with Steven Pinker.Matt Johnson
- Black Progress and Black Rage November 30, 2023A new biopic about Bayard Rustin and the New York Met’s opera about the life of Malcolm X celebrate very different notions of black struggle.Joshua Muravchik
- The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza December 1, 2023
- Jay Nordlinger
- Dress Codes and Their Discontents November 30, 2023On coats, ties, and other garments.
- The 1973 Nobel November 30, 2023On the prize shared between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho — the most controversial Nobel prize ever.
- An Old Letter, re Israel November 30, 2023In 1956, Leo Strauss wrote to Willmoore Kendall.
- Dress Codes and Their Discontents November 30, 2023
Tag Archives: Chuck Schumer
Progressive Collapse
The chaos that is the defining feature of the Biden presidency is not the result of one man’s incompetence. Nor, by itself, is it the consequence of his intellectual shallowness, advanced age, cognitive dissonance or general mediocrity, though all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Build Back Better, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, President Biden, Progressives
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Same Circus, Different Clowns
As roughly everybody knows, on January 6, 2021, then-President Donald J Trump stirred up a crowd by claiming that the most recent presidential election was stolen from him, implying that Joe Biden’s ascension to the office was illegitimate. Immediately thereafter … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Impeachment, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi
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Democrats are Behaving Disgracefully
For the second time in 2 days the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted unanimously (except for Doug Jones, D. AL) to refuse to allow a vote by the full Senate on a $2 trillion bill designed to cushion the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, Congress, COVOD-19, Democrats, emergency, Financial Markets, Senate
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Now What?
Campaign Finance Recent events have proved to be clarifying if unedifying. Michael Bloomberg did us the enormous favor of spending over $500 million in an effort to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. For his efforts he won a total of … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion politics, campaign, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, demonstration, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, money in politics, President Obama, President Trump, primary, protest, Supreme Court
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