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Afghan Disinformation

During the Second World War the German High Command issued regular bulletins about the situation on various fronts. They had a triumphalist tone in 1940, when France fell, and in 1941, when it looked like the Red Army would collapse, but…

A New Right Arises in Poland

Michael Krupa

The year 2019 was an eventful one in Polish politics. Out of a boring and meaningless dispute between two wings of Polish liberalism, there arose a new political force determined to shake up Poland’s political culture.

The Perils of Revisionism

George McCartney

The Irishman • Raging Bull • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker • Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has been hailed in many quarters as a triumph, a return to the early movies of his career that made his reputation as the preeminent director of mob cinema.

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The Warren Rule, Part Two: The Pushback to Ending Racial Preferences
Robert Weissberg | February 17, 2020
Last week I wrote about the first stage in my proposed plan to end racial preferences in the U.S. university system by using the ready availability of genetic testing services, such as 23andMe and others, to broaden the definitions of multicultural identity to the point where these distinctions become meaningless. I’ve named it “The Warren Rule,” in honor of the Massachusetts senator who identified as Native American despite having a genetic link to the continent’s original inhabitants of…
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An Establishment in Panic
Pat Buchanan | February 14, 2020
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders. Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race. Why has Biden suddenly become an albatross?
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How Tall Is Michael Bloomberg, Really?
Edward Welsch | February 13, 2020
He's 5'5", or I'll eat my hat. President Donald Trump has recently mocked Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg as “a 5’4” mass of dead energy.” Immediately, the mainstream press and tech companies were out playing defense for the diminutive billionaire founder of Bloomberg LLC and former mayor of New York City. A National Public Radio host in a blasé tone rebuffed this as another one of the President’s lies this morning, stating that Bloomberg was…
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Trump's 'Deal of the Century,' Part Two: The Disagreeable Agreement
Srdja Trifkovic | February 13, 2020
Part Two: The Disagreeable Agreement Establishing the Palestinians’ significant culpability for the lack of progress nevertheless does not mean that the Israelis should be encouraged to create territorial faits accomplis which cannot be tenable in the long run. Let us look once again at the map attached to the Trump Peace Plan.
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