Don’t Cry for Angela Merkel
— July 18, 2018Angela Merkel is, her supporters like to gloat, the leader of the free world. Just don’t ask her to spend as if she is. Donald Trump has made the German chancellor one of his…
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Doublespeak Double-Cross
— July 11, 2018Don’t you just love doublespeak, which “deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts or reverses the meaning of words,” according to the dictionary? It’s the distorted…
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America’s Political Amnesia
— July 4, 2018Here’s a pop quiz: What is the name of North Korea’s capital city? If you said “Pyongyang,” you probably have an above-average recall. I didn’t want to…
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Harvard’s Bias Against Asian-Americans
— June 27, 2018The Harvard University admissions process appears to be an ongoing microaggression against Asian-Americans. A group called Students for Fair Admissions is suing the school for alleged…
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Canada is not the enemy
— June 20, 2018Justin Trudeau may be the annoying, youthful avatar of chic progressivism — but he’s not our adversary. After leaving the G-7 summit, President Donald Trump blasted the…
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Roe Is a Travesty
— July 11, 2018The prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade will be at the foreground of the battle over Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement, and it should be. Roe is judicially wrought social…
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What Trump Gets
— July 4, 2018In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy’s stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. “For…
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A NAFTA World Cup?
— June 27, 2018I’m totally puzzled: How could the United States, Canada and Mexico have successfully convinced FIFA, the international soccer governing body, to award the 2026 World Cup competition…
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