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The Eternal Quest To Blame Crime on Anyone But Criminals
Book Review: ‘The Knife Went In’ (2018), by Theodore Dalrymple
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Conspiracy Theories About Israel Do Not Come From the Fringes
The people we are supposed to be able to trust are the problem.
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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
Book Review: Sean McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War”
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The Dangerous Fantasy of “International Law”
And why it is a particular problem for Jews.
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The Exchange of Missiles is a Sideshow, Iran’s Jihadist Imperialism is What Matters
The West needs a strategy to counter Iran’s “ring of fire”.
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If Aaron Bushnell is a Political Martyr, Be Clear What His Politics Actually Were
We can either mourn Bushnell as a troubled young man, or accept he died trying to further a grisly political cause.
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Cynicism and Consequences: The Numbers Game Over the Casualties in Gaza
Spreading Iran/HAMAS propaganda is not a humanitarian choice.
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The World Court Case Against Israel is Political Warfare
The Soviet war against "Zionism" is still with us.
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The Yemen Strikes Are Too Little, Too Late, and Avoided the Source of the Problem: Iran
Deny Iran the "deniability" it seeks by using fronts like Ansarallah.
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The 1954 Coup in Guatemala is More Complicated Than American “Economic Imperialism”
The history behind a Leftist morality story about American capitalism and the CIA.
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The Western Media’s Problem Dealing with Terrorists is Not New
Recent developments have made things worse, but they are outgrowths of older problems.
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America’s Sellout of Taiwan and Embrace of Red China Was a Failure on its Own Terms
Half-a-century later, what Nixon achieved by embracing Communist China remains mysterious.
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