Analysis
Tuesday, August 8th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Jon Cohen Science, July 11, 2023 “We’re examining whether government officials, regardless of who they are, unfairly, perhaps biasedly, tipped the scales toward a preferred origin theory.” Two scientists who are co-authors of a 3-year-old article on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic faced down Republican lawmakers today in what might be the most […]
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David Zweig The Free Press, Aug. 7, 2023 “Fauci and Collins were so closely involved with the paper that in internal communications among the paper’s five authors they referred to the pair as the “Bethesda Boys” (a reference to NIH headquarters, in Bethesda, Maryland).” On April 17, 2020, with much of the country still in some […]
Dr. Robert Malone The Daily Sceptic, Aug. 4, 2023 “I think Tony Fauci was trying to protect his institution and his own reputation from the possibility that his agency was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, beyond the scope of the grants received from the National Institutes of Health, may have been working […]
Ian Birrell The UnHerd, July 28, 2023 “It is hard to overstate the influence of this single article, accessed almost six million times and cited by 5,942 other specialist papers.” “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the biography on […]
Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Laura Rozen Diplomatic by Laura Rozen, July 28, 2023 “I have the sense that there’s unrealistic expectations on both sides. And the reason for that is that this process right now, and where we are in the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and the Saudis, is driven by narrow political interests and agendas and timelines […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Aug. 3, 2023 “For Saudi Arabia this means it “must” pull away from oil market coordination with the Russians, and “must” distance itself in all diplomatic and trade matters from the Chinese. For Israel, this means it “must” permanently abandon plans to annex the West Bank, “must” permanently abandon judicial […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2023 “Normalization could happen, however, the election of a right-wing government is a setback. Normalization could happen, but first there must be comprehensive peace, and the right-wing government makes that harder.” Integration of the Middle East as a group of countries in a region is important, including […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Aug. 2, 2023 “The main benefit of such a deal in Friedman’s eyes is that it would put Netanyahu in a tight spot.” According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the administration finally […]
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Origins of Tefillin: Dr. Yehudah Cohn, The Torah.com, Aug. 24, 2016 — Why did the practice of tefillin come into being? The first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, found in the Torah readings of Va’ethanan and Eikev respectively, may appear to resolve the issue, ostensibly ordaining the practice of head and arm tefillin. I will try to show that […]
Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.” In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]
Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]
Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy.” Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform […]
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