In his book review of “The God Desire” for First Things, Irish playwright John Waters laments how the miracles of everyday life are so frequently ignored by modern, atheistic society. “How is it possible, with so much to wonder at about life and existence, to become fixated on nothingness as though this were the default state of being?” he asks.
He refers to leftists as “shit” – often and with gusto. He’s a trained economist – a self-described libertarian and “anarcho-capitalist” – who wants to reduce government, slash regulations and curb inflation by ditching his country’s central bank for the U.S. dollar and crypto. And he just persuaded 56 percent of a dejected, poverty-racked country’s voters to put him in charge. Meet Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president. Bonus feature: see here what Milei really thinks of leftists.
In Tablet Mag, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff classify us all into six broad response categories regarding the pandemic’s aftermath. From zero-Covid zealots to regime agents to all-in antagonists (plus several more nuanced categories), the prominent dissident scientists’ central point is that the interplay of popular and elite attitudes will determine whether there is a thoughtful, meaningful reckoning with what happened – so we can avoid the same mistakes next time.
Peter Berkowitz in Real Clear Politics suggests anti-Semitism is only a partial reason for why American universities are siding with jihadist barbarism. At least equally powerful is multiculturalism, which has fomented a divide between Western civilization and the “post-West” that is, in turn, propagating an intolerant and anti-pluralist creed under the guise of tolerance and equity.
Melanie Phillips on her Substack assesses U.S. President Joe Biden’s response to Hamas’ October 7 pogrom. Phillips questions why, after initial support, the U.S. has not used its military apparatus against Iran and why Biden is seeking to trip up Israel’s momentum by incessantly demanding a humanitarian “pause” in Israel’s counterattack.
He refers to leftists as “shit” – often and with gusto. He’s a trained economist – a self-described libertarian and “anarcho-capitalist” – who wants to reduce government, slash regulations and curb inflation by ditching his country’s central bank for the U.S. dollar and crypto. And he just persuaded 56 percent of a dejected, poverty-racked country’s voters to put him in charge. Meet Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president. Bonus feature: see here what Milei really thinks of leftists.
In Tablet Mag, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff classify us all into six broad response categories regarding the pandemic’s aftermath. From zero-Covid zealots to regime agents to all-in antagonists (plus several more nuanced categories), the prominent dissident scientists’ central point is that the interplay of popular and elite attitudes will determine whether there is a thoughtful, meaningful reckoning with what happened – so we can avoid the same mistakes next time.
Peter Berkowitz in Real Clear Politics suggests anti-Semitism is only a partial reason for why American universities are siding with jihadist barbarism. At least equally powerful is multiculturalism, which has fomented a divide between Western civilization and the “post-West” that is, in turn, propagating an intolerant and anti-pluralist creed under the guise of tolerance and equity.
Melanie Phillips on her Substack assesses U.S. President Joe Biden’s response to Hamas’ October 7 pogrom. Phillips questions why, after initial support, the U.S. has not used its military apparatus against Iran and why Biden is seeking to trip up Israel’s momentum by incessantly demanding a humanitarian “pause” in Israel’s counterattack.
