Recognizing the Enemy Within
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Recognizing the Enemy Within

John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate” illuminates timeless and timely truths about the relationship between freedom and authoritarianism, as well as the that between illusion and reality. It’s a perfect film for our times.

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Bragg’s Prosecution Makes Trump a Martyr

It is difficult to imagine that Trump’s alleged dalliance with Stormy Daniels will be his undoing. If anything, this show trial may have been the thing he needed to remind America of his peculiar virtues.

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‘Remember Us’:  How to Fight Media Bombholing

A victim of media “bombholing” explains how the media drive their ratings and profits by publishing an unending series of wild, unsubstantiated stories, never stopping to correct the ones that came before.

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Every State Is a Border State Now

The death of Jacques Price serves as a reminder of just how thoroughly our institutions have been turned against Americans at every level.

Hamas is Israel’s Golem
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Hamas is Israel’s Golem

Hamas is a golem, a monstrous creature from Jewish folklore created from mud and made animate, which escaped his master and turned against him.

Losing Our American Minds
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Losing Our American Minds

America is becoming an open-air insane asylum. Something about modern life is driving people crazy and nobody really knows what to do about it.

Down With Del Marxists
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Down With Del Marxists

Elites who live in wealthy communities like Del Mar pose as revolutionaries and preach fellowship with the disenfranchised while holding America’s underclass in contempt.

Israel’s Strategic Dilemma
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Israel’s Strategic Dilemma

Israel will face an impossible strategic situation if it enters urban warfare in Gaza. Far from being a sign of weakness, exercising restraint in the face of Hamas’ provocations is the sound and politically profitable course of action.

The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray
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The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray

Albert Lewin’s 1945 film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is the perfect selection for this season of reflection about our mortality and the virtues we need to cultivate to make life worth living.

Pursuing Ethnic Blocs Stupidly
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Pursuing Ethnic Blocs Stupidly

In responses to the Hamas attacks, conservatives again demonstrate inept attempts to imitate the left’s shameful and divisive appeals to ethnic blocs. In abasing themselves to pursue special voting blocs, these conservatives adopt a bad principle and a clumsy and embarrassing strategy.

Shock and Awe by Hamas
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Shock and Awe by Hamas

This weekend’s unprecedented attack on Israel from Hamas exposes weaknesses in intelligence, fault lines in ongoing efforts to maintain stability and peace in the broader Middle East region, and potential dangers ahead for all parties.

Oh, Canada!
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Oh, Canada!

Canada’s government and its premier, Justin Trudeau, betray their true nature in the blunders of the past few weeks.

Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump?
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Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump?

Gavin Newsom now assumes the same role within his party that Donald Trump assumed within the GOP back in 2015. It remains to be seen how closely this charismatic deal maker will follow the Trump game plan.