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Thursday, September 8th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
CONTEMPLATING TRUSS’ MAJOR CHALLENGES LISTEN: The New British Prime Minister: Potomac Watch, WSJ, Sept. 6, 2022 — While Liz Truss takes over as prime minister of the United Kingdom, the country is facing economic woes and an energy crisis. Will she be able to deliver growth and make a success of Brexit, as was pledged by […]
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Elis Gjevori Middle East Eye, Sept. 5, 2022 “… in a move that would reverse decades of British policy on Israel-Palestine, Truss said she would “review” the relocation of the country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem.” The British Conservative Party selected Liz Truss as its new leader, and the United Kingdom‘s next prime minister, on Monday. Truss, who is currently […]
John Bolton WSJ, Sept. 6, 2022 “As in America, bureaucratic resisters in key departments, such as Treasury and the Foreign Office, resist even acknowledging the struggle with China, but Ms. Truss has no illusions.” Frissons of disapproval shook the State Department last year when British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss first met Secretary of State Antony Blinken. She […]
David Rose The Jewish Chronicle, Aug. 11, 2022 “He was the best boss I ever had and a very big influence on me. I remember that at work it was great during the winter because he would leave early for Shabbat every Friday. In the summer he was there until much later. That was […]
Toby Greene Fathom Journal, September 2022 “In Truss’s mental map of the world, in which decent, honest, sovereign free-trading nations are pitted against aggressive authoritarians, Israel sits firmly in the former category.” INTRODUCTION: PRIME MINISTER TRUSS IN A DANGEROUS WORLD Liz Truss enters Number 10 at a time of massive policy challenges. Whilst the […]
Wednesday, September 7th 2022 / Wednesday, September 7th 2022
MEDIA-OCRITY OF THE WEEK Dear Insurrectionists and Fascists: I’m Sorry I Offended You: Dana Millbank, Washington Post, Sept. 2, 2022 “… Of course, Biden’s semi-fascism remark was directed at MAGA leaders such as Trump and McCarthy — not the masses they’ve hornswoggled with their anti-democratic lies. But McCarthy used a classic fascist tool: casting […]
Tuesday, September 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
“… the legacy of political correctness is the mockery it inspired” Please sign Petition e-4115 (Social affairs and equality) to determine how so much money could have been given to an outright bigot such as Laith Marouf. Biden’s Imposing Racism in Everything from Housing To Health Care: Betsy McCaughey, NY Post, Aug. 30, 2022 Denouncing […]
Nicole Ault and Megan Keller WSJ, Sept. 2, 2022 “These tenets aren’t presented as abstract notions for faculty to consider, but ideas they’re meant to apply.” Randi Weingarten left no room for doubt. “Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools or high schools,” the American Federation of Teachers president said in a speech last year. Even […]
Phoebe Maltz Bovy Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Sept. 4, 2022 “While the specific term cancel culture wasn’t used, the concept existed and was indeed driving cultural concerns.” At a church book sale in my Toronto neighborhood, I found The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, a bestseller by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf first published 30 years […]
Jonathan Kay Quillette, Sept. 2, 2022 “Canadian media is now full of earnest denunciations of an idea that MacKenzie describes as having been “jokingly created during a livestream.” Last month, Pierre Poilievre, the populist front-runner in the race to become leader of Canada’s federal Conservative party, was photographed shaking hands with Jeremy MacKenzie, a former soldier facing […]
Betsy McCaughey NY Post, Aug. 30, 2022 “Critical race theory has no place in the health-care profession.” Unless you’re a person of color or a favored minority, brace yourself to be treated unfairly by the Biden administration. President Joe Biden is pushing racial equity — which is very different from equal treatment regardless of race. […]
Friday, September 2nd 2022 / Friday, September 2nd 2022
“The question remains: how was the grant even accorded to begin with?” The Most Important Creative Output In Modern Hebrew Literature Since Agnon: Yael Halevi-Wise appreciates the life and work of A.B.Yehoshua (1936-2022): Yael Halevi-Wise, Fathom Journal, June 2022 — Two photographs of A. B. Yehoshua hang on the walls of my study, actually three […]
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