The American Mind’s Weekly Digest 
FEATURES
Disaster in Afghanistan
Michael Anton has described the war in Afghanistan as “doomed from the start.” Sean Davis, Lomez, Helen Roy, Spencer Klavan, Seth Barron, and Peachy Keenan respond.
SALVOS
Words Wasted
Privata
Can the Right persuade better?
Vaccine Regret
Spencer Klavan
Our useless ruling classes are making a hard decision way, way worse.
Freedom from "Blackness"
Jason D. Hill
Renouncing race is the answer to restoring our humanity.
Importing Enemies
Michael Anton
The demand to resettle Afghan refugees brings the war home.
China’s Digital Return to Reality—and Ours
James Poulos
The Latest Development in the East-West Social Engineering Divide.
¿Qué Onda, Gavin?
Governor Newsom’s career may depend on a taken-for-granted constituency.
The New Blank Slate
Gabriel Noah Brahm
An English literature professor describes how he came to love teaching Freshman Comp.
MEMOS
Graveyard of Narratives
Angelo Codevilla
Afghanistan, et al., for the record.
Reining in China
John Mac Glionn
How to make Beijing pay.
Playing Fair with Cheaters
Matt Rinaldi
It’s time to end the era of shared house leadership in Texas.
PODCASTS
The Roundtable Episode #84
What will happen to the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan? Will we ever be allowed to know? Does Europe’s experience with Afghan refugees leave us with any useful lessons? If so, will we be permitted to learn them? Plus: Andrew Cuomo vanishes into obscurity, lobbing a political grenade on the way out, while Australia and the rest of the Anglosphere are careening into perpetual COVID despotism. Our editors discuss.
THE CLOSE READ
The Fall of Afghanistan w/Charles Kesler
The CRB’s Summer edition is wide-ranging, covering topics including masking, crime, and a prescient editor’s note about the fiasco of Afghanistan’s fall. Join Dr. Kesler and Spencer as they discuss the significance of the collapse of Kabul, a brief history of how we got there, and what lessons can be gleaned from it all. Plus: an overview of the whole edition.
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