International

Arrested by the CCP: ‘Without Freedom, We Have Nothing’0
- International, Politics
- June 24, 2024
When Jimmy Lai was a child working the streets of Canton (Guangzhou), China, in the 1950s, he received a bar of chocolate as a tip for carrying a man’s bags at a train station. Poor and hungry, he immediately bit into the treat. He had never tasted anything like it, and he asked the traveler
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Something Rotten in Denmark: Israel, ‘Hamlet,’ and the Current Crisis 15
- Culture, Featured, International, Literature
- June 4, 2024
As someone with a background in foreign affairs and English literature, I realized recently that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Hamlet of territorial disputes. While Hamlet is often considered the exemplar of Shakespeare’s corpus, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often regarded as the exemplar of land disputes. Like Hamlet, the conflict has garnered much attention over the
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What ‘RoboCop’ and the Bible Teach About Rights 3
- Entertainment, Culture, International, Politics
- April 4, 2024
One of my favorite movies growing up was RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 dystopian classic. The movie, which was probably way too violent for a 10-year-old, depicts a fictional future in which Detroit is ravaged by violent crime and on the verge of social collapse. The police are virtually powerless against the criminals, who are too
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What Ireland Can Teach the World About the Importance of Family 3
- Culture, Family, Featured, International, MomThink
- March 27, 2024
Earlier this month, Irish voters delivered a stunning ballot-box upset by voting down two anti-family measures that had been heavily promoted by the ruling center-right government and enjoyed widespread support in the media and among the chattering class. Conducted via a double referendum, the two proposals sought to alter Ireland’s constitution to diminish the value
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei Takes a Torch to the Davos Elite 5
- Politics, Economics, Featured, International
- January 26, 2024
Javier Milei was sworn in as the president of Argentina less than two months ago, and he is already making a big splash at home and abroad. During his presidential campaign, the libertarian economist, former rock singer, and political outsider turned heads by wielding a literal chainsaw symbolizing his plans for Argentina’s bloated bureaucracy. A
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Privacy in Xinjiang: A Cautionary Tale for America 2
- Culture, International
- January 24, 2024
The Chinese government has wedded totalitarian ambitions with high-tech surveillance technology, conducting a slow cultural genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region of China. The genocide is cultural because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not outright killing the Uyghurs. Instead, they are waging a war of slow attrition. The CCP punishes
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