Analysis
Thursday, January 26th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Jacob Siegel Tablet, Jan. 19, 2023 “As of 2019, 4.2 million people in the U.S. held security clearances. That’s not a specialized core of security professionals; it’s the population of Los Angeles.” On Wednesday morning, Jamie Lee Curtis was trending on Twitter. Earlier in the week, the actress had posted a photo on Instagram […]
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Washington Times, Jan. 22, 2023 It doesn’t happen that often, but President Biden has been getting some bad press lately. The media have suddenly awakened to challenge the White House over the classified documents scandal. Meanwhile, a major news network painted an outrageous picture of a Biden family that constantly tries to cash in on its access to […]
Tuesday, January 24th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
David Hambling Forbes, Jan. 19, 2023 “A Russian source claimed, with interesting detail, that BMPT had good APS [Active Protection System], had inflicted a remarkable number of casualties and were generally well regarded.” Russia’s new BMPT “Terminator” is a novel type of armored vehicle with multiple weapons and may represent the next stage in […]
Brent M. Eastwood 1945, Jan. 19, 2023 “This makes multiple-launch rocket systems like the TOS-1A even more deadly.] When it comes to thermobaric weapons – the term just sounds ominous. Thermobarics are also described as aerosol weapons or vacuum bombs, terms that likely sound even worse to your ears. To put these deadly concepts to use, […]
Michelle Bentley Current History, Volume 122, Issue 840, January 2023 “Failure to respect WMD norms also undermines future arms control diplomacy. WMDs are regulated by agreements that hold taboos at their core.” Vladimir Putin does not play by the rules. The Russian president has long had a reputation for riding roughshod over the values […]
Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review, Jan. 7, 2023 “Americans tend to think of war as moral exercise conducted upon the earth, and many seem to believe that somehow the vigor for democracy displayed in the Ukraine conflict will dissuade China from its ambitions in Taiwan.” ‘Your money is not charity,” Volodymyr Zelensky told a joint session […]
Monday, January 23rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Editorial Board WSJ, Jan. 20, 2023 “With this action, the court has provided clear evidence of its overreach, making the best argument for the Israeli right’s judicial reforms.” Every time a right-wing government wins an election these days, the immediate refrain from the dominant global media is that it’s a threat to democracy. […]
TOI Staff Times of Israel, Jan. 22, 2023 “The prime minister has told us he wants to do big things. And we want to do big things, too. But if we want to achieve those things, we can’t wake up and have one’s backyard on fire. So he’s going to have to manage […]
Michael Koplow Israel Hayom, Jan. 22, 2023 “Basic Laws do not necessarily sit above the messiness of politics or reflect a broad political and societal consensus, and the Israeli Supreme Court’s effort to treat them as such causes its own set of controversies and opposition.” The furious debate over Israeli Justice Minister Yariv […]
Caroline Glick JNS, Jan. 22, 2023 “How do we bridge the gap between the law and what is right? Finding an answer to this question, discovering the secret … ‘spice’ is perhaps one of the greatest tasks that lies before us as judges.” Friday morning brought the first piece of good news […]
Friday, January 20th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Susannah Johnston MEF, Jan. 13, 2023 “Tarek Fatah: The Islamists in Canada are using classic Muslim Brotherhood tactics to establish themselves as the primary victims of racism and what they refer to as “Islamophobia.”” An Islamist organization in Canada has obstructed the enforcement of anti-terror finance laws imposed after 9/11 and has convinced government […]
Jeffrey Herf Quillette, Dec. 2, 2022 “In response to this era of Islamist inspired terror, a body of scholarship and intellectual intervention emerged that sought to introduce some nuance and clarity into the public debate.’ A review of Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes, 523 pages, Academic Studies Press […]
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