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Where Us and Ukrainian War Aims Collide 2
- International, Politics
- October 18, 2022
To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Yet, who controls Crimea and the Donbas has, in the history of U.S.-Russian relations, never been an issue to justify a war between us. America has never had
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Fauci Claims He Had ‘Nothing to Do’ With School Closures. His Own Statements Suggest Otherwise 2
- Politics, Science
- October 18, 2022
The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped, “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.” The line comes to mind after watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl over the weeknd. In the interview, Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked whether it
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The Three Stooges Make a Comeback 6
- International, Politics
- October 17, 2022
“The rewards for being sane are not many, but knowing what’s funny is one of them.” Thus spoke the late novelist Kingsley Amis through a character in his work, Stanley and the Women. Whether I am sane may be a point of contention, especially since the hammer blows from the political and cultural disasters of
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Why So Many Elites Can’t Stand Elon Musk 3
- Culture, Politics
- October 17, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter-acquisition saga saw new developments last week as Musk reaffirmed his original offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share, a price that puts the company’s value at a whopping $44 billion. After the original deal was settled in April, Musk tried to back out in July, alleging Twitter was misrepresenting the
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Climbing Out of the Grievance Pit 4
- Culture, History
- October 14, 2022
Sometimes one gets great insight from the oddest places. This happened to me the other day when a headline about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, caught my eye. As we all know, Meghan had a massive fallout with the British royal family, moving to the U.S. with her husband Prince Harry to allegedly live private
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Can Economists Predict the Future? Hardly.0
- Economics
- October 14, 2022
Economists predict the future course of economic events to show we have a sense of humor. If we could do so accurately, we’d all be very rich, and we’re not; we’re comfortable, but not fantastically rich (except in our enjoyment of the dismal science). Why can’t we predict the future? Because the world is a
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