A recent edition of The Tehran Times carried a warning: “If the Zionist regime’s war crimes and genocidal attacks against civilians in Gaza do not come to an end, the region will move towards making a big and decisive decision...” How America can stop Iran -- Unherd
Don’t blame Israel for the sins of America — Unherd
The Nagorno-Karabakh region, between Azerbaijan and Armenia, has been the source of repeated, bitter fighting since the Nineties. A few weeks ago, following nine months of Azeri blockade of the majority-Armenian civilian population, Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the region. Some 100,000 Armenian refugees fled for Armenia. It was, in effect, an ethnic cleansing of… …
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Stephen King, America’s Mao Dun
He's gone woke to cover his past sins: The critical consensus in certain corners is that this is the result of King having gone woke — perhaps in an attempt to stave off cancellation for work that hasn’t aged well. There may be something to this — King’s pre-Y2K oeuvre makes heavy use of the Magical Negro …
Immigration is religion’s only hope — Unherd
When my father was going through the process of becoming an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he was required to take courses on Diversity, … Immigration is religion’s only hope
Ex Parte Milligan, Sam Ervin and the Governor of New Mexico
Now that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has suspended open firearm carry laws in certain places as a "public health emergency," the whole concept of the suspension of rights under our constitutional system comes up. One case that comes up regarding that is Ex Parte Milligan, which dates from the Civil War. During the …
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Has It Ever Occurred To Anyone that It’s Too Late to Inculcate Character at the University Level?
That's been the underlying assumption behind the lament of the way academia has gone: Today, college degrees are utilitarian documents used to secure good jobs. American workism undermines the traditional purposes of higher education, things like the pursuit of knowledge and the development of virtue. John Henry Newman described the goal of a college education …
Changing Our Elites is Where We Start. But From There…
I'm surprised that someone would put it this plainly, but they did: In practice, this means replacing our current elites in government, the media, and universities with a class of “self-conscious aristoi.” This new elite will “secure the foundational goods that make possible human flourishing for ordinary people.” More specifically, this new elite will abolish the …
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Watergate: A Personal Reflection
It's that time of the decade again when we look back on the Watergate scandal and how it brought down Richard Nixon and many of those around him. In this case it is the fiftieth anniversary. I usually like to note that at this time of year--the scandal itself drug out for almost two years …
Washington DC is a failed city — Unherd
If you had to pick the exact day when the young, affluent, and oblivious of Washington DC were forced to accept that they live in a failed city, 22 … Washington DC is a failed city Mike Pence might want to consider this…
Admitting the Failure of the Sexual Revolution Without Admitting It
Timothy Fountain's piece That Golden Age of Porn is an honest piece on the era of 1969-1984 when porn was distributed freely (thanks in part to SCOTUS) in print and in theatres. Porn was a major disseminator of the sexual revolution. Tim's major contribution in this piece, however, was to remind everyone of the routine …
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