Personal essay. A quarter century ago, all my good luck evaporated. My new favorite album warned of tribulation to come. I did everything wrong except the one thing that mattered. nationalreview.com/2024/04/a-quar…

A lot of people’s self-perception won’t allow them to acknowledge this but Donald Trump is a low-key Ukraine hawk. nationalreview.com/corner/donald-…

Seriously what is in the drinking water over there?

I get accused of not trusting Ukrainians enough. Yet it’s the hawks who have gone “La la la I can’t hear you,” as Ukrainian negotiators report that Ukraine’s neutrality was emphasized as the most important point in every meeting with the Russians

It was a passionate exchange but I think we merely clarified our positions rather than made the arguments for them. Anyway, it was fun.

Noah Rothman Rich Lowry Charles C. W. Cooke Michael Brendan Dougherty MBD is trash

Kevin puts a huge amount of effort into missing the point.

Wrong, it actually half a billion dollars to NGOs for “refugee assistance”- groups that coach people who to navigate around our immigration laws. The Israel funding bill gives another 3.5 billion for the same purpose.

Ireland’s neutral, bub. That was the outer limit of their foreign policy independence from the great power geography placed beside them.

Stabbed in the back isn’t going to work. Milley was right that Ukraine might want to test talks after their first successful counter offensive. But the boosters got everything they wanted last year when conditions were at their best, and conditions deteriorated anyway as

My dissent from NR’s praise of Mike Johnson and the aid bills. Republicans are throwing more good money after bad strategically, threw away their leverage, and ended up funding the NGOs making the border crisis worse in the end.
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Currently in a small depressed NE former industrial city. The condition is shocking even to me. If your idea of a thriving downtown is a dozen individual middle aged men walking around otherwise empty streets with closed or boarded shops and intermittently shouting at nobody in

Yep. Blackboards are superior as technology for classrooms than digital whiteboards. Also fun to give a high energy kid erasers to clap outside.

LOL, like when Churchill aceeded to a fake position on Home Rule?

In his essay collection, The New Leviathans, John Gray lucidly describes the new geopolitical beasts stalking the earth but while he harkens to Thomas Hobbes, Gray reveals himself more as a Calvinist without a redeeming God. My review: nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/…

In recent weeks SNL has built skits around Beavis and Butthead, Forrest Gump, AirBud, Erin Brokovich and Jumanji. It’s another sign that the 1990s are the last touchpoint for popular culture. nationalreview.com/2024/04/we-are…