Robert Nicholson in Providence recounts his time spent with friends in Israel near the Lebanese border and the country’s long and fruitless efforts at making peace with neighbouring terrorist organizations. As missiles fly over head, Nicholson queries his female host about the long game. “‘How will this end?’ I asked her. ‘We destroy Hezbollah—it’s the only way. These people only understand power’,” is her pragmatic response.

Not Your Grandparents’ Kennedy
The makers of Trix and Lucky Charms recently promised to remove synthetic dyes from their products, notes Kevin Roberts in The American Mind. “Nobody forced them,” he observes. “They read the room.” And the elephant in that room is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a Trump cabinet member and ringmaster of the “Make America Healthy Again” crusade. Kennedy’s Herculean tasks include battling entrenched interests while redirecting a nation that is disproportionately fat, out of shape, chronically ill and drug-dependent.


