Analysis
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Owen Greene The Conversation, May 26, 2022 “The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and intervention in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine confirmed that Russia no longer accepted previous agreed national boundaries.” Sweden’s application to join Nato in May marks a major shift away from its longstanding position as a neutral state, stretching back to 1812. Yet […]
Robbie Gramer Foreign Policy, June 7, 2022 “The risk of escalation still remains, so it’s prudent for NATO planners to be thinking about what a potential conflict between NATO and Russia could look like.” During his decade and a half at the Pentagon, Christopher Skaluba read countless reports and assessments on the Russian military and […]
Vazha Tavberidze RFE/RL, May 26, 2022 “… now the Baltic Sea will practically become a lake [belonging to] NATO. Russia has a couple of 100 kilometers of shoreline in the Baltic Sea, which is 98 percent surrounded by NATO countries. So Russia’s ability to have any military operations there will be practically zero.” After decades […]
Adam O’Neal WSJ, June 12, 2022 “In late November, or early December, we heard Russians also saying that NATO must not or should not take any more new members. Well, that led to an odd situation.” Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called Vladimir Putin on May 14 to let him know that Finland was applying to join the […]
Friday, June 17th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ilya Shapiro WSJ, June 6, 2022 “The freedom to speak is no freedom at all if it makes an exception for speech someone finds offensive or counter to some nebulous conception of equity.” After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday. But after full consideration of the report I […]
Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed JTA, June 10, 2022 “Bollinger also frequently acted on any perceived anti-Israel activity among Columbia students and faculty, and among universities in general.” The presidents of Harvard and Columbia have both announced plans to step down after the next academic year, part of a larger sea change in elite higher […]
Solveig Lucia Gold Common Sense with Bari Weiss, May 26, 2022 “The head of Joshua’s department condemned Joshua’s words in an email to the entire Princeton Classics community and issued an official statement on the department website, without ever saying a word to Joshua himself.” I decided to apply for early admission to Princeton after sitting in […]
Irit Tratt Algemeiner, June 1, 2022 “The Brandeis Center’s 2021 national poll of Jewish fraternity and sorority AEPi and AEPhi found that 50 percent of respondents hide their Jewish identity on campus.” In recent years, antisemitic incidents, including the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to boycott Israel, resulted in kosher supermarkets pulling the ice cream […]
Thursday, June 16th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Katelyn Richardson Washington Examiner, May 25, 2022 The satire business is tough when you’re competing with reality. Yesterday, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted a list of 70 “fulfilled prophecies,” comparing satire articles his site published to real news stories occurring on later dates. A selection of these satirical headlines is nearly indistinguishable from their real counterparts. […]
Jonathan Haidt The Atlantic, May 2022 What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make […]
Jack Wolfsohn National Review, June 7, 2022 Matt Walsh’s hilarious yet hard-hitting documentary, What Is a Woman?, addresses an issue that is at the center of the culture war: transgenderism. Throughout the film, which premiered on June 1 exclusively for Daily Wire subscribers, Walsh struggles to find anyone who can answer what would appear to be a simple question. […]
Jason Johnson and Sean Kennedy NY Post, June 8, 2022 How much exactly does “social justice” cost? Liberal billionaire George Soros spent at least $40 million over the last decade to answer that question, according to our latest research. Those millions helped elect scores of progressive prosecutors bent on remaking the criminal justice system to […]
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