06/28/2025
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Trump Returns From NATO Summit with a Revamped Nixon Doctrine. Plus, an Ode
to Joe Biden’s Debate Collapse.
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Pulling their weight: At the height of this week’s NATO summit, China’s
ambassador to Nepal lashed out at the European “ass kissers” who made nice with
Donald Trump. “His anger is well founded,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike
Watson. “Between the bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear program and the summit’s
results, the last few days […]
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Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery
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In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery,
Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave
economy including the role of slave traders from New England in the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, the profitability of slave labor, and material
conditions on Southern plantations including the health, […]
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Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne
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Ricardo Duchesne’s Greatness and Ruin is an ambitious, confrontational, and
deeply contrarian work. Framed as a sweeping civilizational analysis, it seeks
to explain the unprecedented intellectual, cultural, and technological
achievements of the West alongside what Duchesne views as its current
self-destructive liberal pluralism. This is a book that refuses to bow to
academic orthodoxy, rejecting […]
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Stop moaning about Jeff Bezos’s wedding
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Guests have been gathering in Venice over the past few days for what some in
the press have dubbed the ‘wedding of the century’, between Amazon owner Jeff
Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez. The 200-plus attendees at Friday’s actual
ceremony included the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio and
Kim Kardashian. It’s a […]
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SCOTUS Smites the Lower Courts – No More Universal Injunctions
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Justice Jackson got a rhetorical beat-down by her colleagues. The Supreme
Court handed down a landmark ruling – on its last day before breaking for
summer – in Trump v. CASA. The case involved a preliminary injunction that
blocked Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order on birthright citizenship.
While the action on birthright citizenship was […]
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