Analysis
Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Margot Cleveland The Federalist, Dec. 14, 2022 “The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny.” or years, our federal government has quietly operated a protect-Biden racket. The […]
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Tuesday, December 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Max Glenn Washington Times, Dec. 3, 2022 “He was buying drones from Iran. Now he’s going to buy artillery rounds from North Korea.” The Soviet Union supplied Marxist revolutionaries and Third World dictatorships with military hardware for decades as part of its long struggle against the capitalist West, but 10 months after sending tanks […]
Gerard Laval Washington Times, Nov. 29, 2022 “If Mr. Putin’s ambition is to dominate Europe in emulation of Hitler, then he must be stopped and he must be stopped now before he is in a position to act upon his ambitions. But if he is merely trying to reconstitute Russian hegemony over an area that […]
James Malsin WSJ, Dec. 5, 2022 “Since October, Russia has repeatedly launched large-scale aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities using long-range missiles and drones, with many of the attacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian drones hit two Russian air bases on Monday, Russia’s defense ministry said, while Ukrainian officials hinted at a capability to strike deeper within […]
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman Foreign Affairs, November/December 2022 “Russian power and influence may be diminished, but that does not mean Russia will become dramatically less threatening. Instead, some aspects of the threat are likely to worsen.” At a White House ceremony on August 9, days after the U.S. Senate agreed in a near-unanimous […]
Monday, December 12th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Paul A. Gigot WSJ, Nov. 29, 2022 “Jimmy is an entrepreneur who believes in capitalism and freedom.” My main duty tonight is to talk about Jimmy Lai, and I am glad you were able to see him in that Acton Institute video, which captures some of his personality. Let’s just say Jimmy lets you […]
Joseph C. Steinberg WSJ, Dec. 1, 2022 “The human suffering would be dire and the political ramifications hard to fathom once Chinese citizens notice that three years of their lockdown misery didn’t, in fact, save their loved ones. The same authoritarian system that allowed Mr. Xi to institute zero-Covid makes it essentially impossible for him to […]
Nathaniel Taplin WSJ, Dec. 6, 2022 “China is finally edging away from testing and quarantining as its primary methods for dealing with Covid-19. The rest of its healthcare infrastructure will have to gear up quickly.” China is finally edging away from the suite of zero-Covid policies that suppressed the virus for much of the past three […]
Andrew J. Nathan WSJ, Dec. 2, 2022 “… authoritarian hubris has trapped him between an exhausted populace and a relentless pathogen. China lacks an effective vaccine of its own, but importing foreign mRNA vaccines would impose a damaging loss of face.” In April 1989, a peaceful protest by several hundred university students in front of the […]
Friday, December 9th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Ariel Sophia Bardi New Lines Magazine, Nov. 11, 2022 “Altneuland” was one of a spate of turn-of-the-century texts that sought to answer what Jewish autonomy would look and feel like.” Exactly a century ago, a cantankerous German aristocrat and a lovelorn Jewish lawyer from Vienna stepped off a private yacht onto the […]
Gil Troy Jewish Journal, Aug. 18, 2022 “Sometimes, he is more playwright than architect, as when he plots out the Jews’ redemption in three acts from “Introduction” to “Elevation” to “Emigration.”” Editor’s note: Excerpted from the new three-volume set, “Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings,” the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish […]
Bonnie K. Goodman Times of Israel, Aug. 30, 2022 “Bettelheim described Herzl as the Congress’ president as “a miracle . . . as if King Solomon had arisen from his grave, because he could no longer bear the suffering of his people and its humiliation.’” On this day in history… August 29–31, 1897, Theodor Herzl convenes […]
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