Analysis
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Marty Makary Newsweek, Dec. 30, 2022 “The NIH’s disheveled COVID response is a window into a bureaucracy that has underperformed for decades.” After 54 years at the NIH, tomorrow marks Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘s last day in office as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). While many were angered […]
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Max Kozlov Nature, Dec. 13, 2022 “Over the decades, we have let our public-health system atrophy [by] not replacing people who leave, not keeping the equipment up to date, not getting [information] accessible in real time.” This month, Anthony Fauci will step down as director of the US National Institute of Allergy and […]
Alex Hammer, Daily Mail, Dec. 28, 2022 “In an interview with the scientific journal Nature, Fauci quashed discussion about Covid’s origin and virus-tinkering experiments at the Wuhan lab in the epicenter of the pandemic – even though privately he expressed concern the virus was unleashed in an experiment-gone-wrong.” New Twitter boss Elon Musk has claimed that former […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, December 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
LEADER FOR LIFE The World According to Xi Jinping: Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, Nov.-Dec. 2022 — In the post–Cold War era, the Western world has suffered no shortage of grand theories of history and international relations. The settings and actors may change, but the global geopolitical drama goes on: variants of realism and liberalism compete to explain and […]
Monday, December 12th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
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, November 25th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Terence Corcoran Financial Post, Nov. 20, 2020 “So it is not by verbal chance that Trudeau used the word “reset” in his video conference speech.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lit up some of the highly flammable sections of social media the other day after excerpts from a two-month-old virtual speech he gave […]
Friday, October 28th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
RISE UP OTTAWA!: COME TOGETHER TO LEARN, ENGAGE, AND CELEBRATE OUR JEWISH IDENTITY: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, Infinity Convention Centre, 1:30 pm sharp. — Over the past year, we’ve witnessed and experienced an unprecedented and terrifying rise in antisemitism. The fact that it’s happening in our schools cannot be ignored. Jewish children as young as 3 […]
Cara Zwibel Toronto Sun, Oct. 20, 2022 “… an intolerable situation requiring decisive action is not the same thing as a national emergency, nor does it demonstrate a threat to national security.” Act first, ask questions later. That’s what the Emergencies Act allows the government to do. No parliamentary debate, no sober second […]
Brian Lilley Toronto Sun, Oct. 18, 2022 “The law defines a public order emergency as “an emergency that arises from threats to the security of Canada and that is so serious as to be a national emergency.” We haven’t heard evidence that this actually happened in Ottawa yet, mostly we’ve heard about municipal incompetence, […]
Ryan Alford National Post, Apr. 25, 2022 “… it appears to keen observers that an official finding against the government is approaching. This is what likely explains Jagmeet Singh’s public musings about whether in that event his party would withdraw its confidence and support to bring down Justin Trudeau’s Government. On CTV’s Question Period, Singh said […]
Friday, March 20th 2020 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Take One: Shabbat 14 and 15: Tablet, Mar. 20, 2020 — Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 14 and 15, usher us into a discussion of a deeply complicated subject: the rules of purity. But what starts out like a seemingly esoteric topic soon grows eerily relevant in this time of coronavirus awareness: Rabbi Dovid […]
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