It is springtime in the West. This moment recalls the words of Poland’s Cold War-era philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, who asserted, “Obvious lies uttered aloud with impunity are excellent proofs of the health of the system.” The lies are no longer...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:29:07 +0000This has obviously been a bad week for Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and for his country. I fear, however, that it’s proving to be an equally bad week for Donald Trump and for U.S. national security policy. Someone should be taking...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:26:57 +0000There are a couple of things a woman never wants to hear from her doctor: “I’m sorry, you’re infertile, here are your options” is one of them — especially if the options aren’t really options. After all, there is a...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:26:32 +0000Elon Musk and DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — are all the rage. As this is written, here are a few sample headlines: The Washington Times: “Trump order calls for agencies to run regulations past DOGE.” Newsmax: “IRS...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:26:05 +0000WASHINGTON — The number of border apprehensions was down in January — 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020. In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000. The White House...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:25:44 +0000England’s King George III found out the hard way that the very genesis of the American ethos is running our own affairs liberated from bureaucratic control. The United States was born out of secession. Like in 1860, secession debates rage...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:25:26 +0000If you’re a consumer of the standard fare on cable news, you’ve assuredly seen historian and British conservative talking head Niall Ferguson, whose current titles include Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the...
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:25:04 +0000President Trump announced that he would push for reciprocal tariffs in response to other countries raising tariffs on American goods. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay break down the usage and meaning of tariffs and...
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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:53:40 +0000“I would have been hailed with approval if I had died at 50,” W.E.B. Du Bois reflected upon his 90th birthday. “At 75 my death was practically requested.” Mitch McConnell, who rather redundantly announced on Thursday that he would not...
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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:08:26 +0000If you put 50 randomly selected American academic economists in a room and ask them what they thought of raising tariffs as a way of increasing economic growth, I bet at least 48 of them would say that is a...
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