While Elon Musk and his DOGE reformers dominate media attention, a fundamental change in the American government is taking place in foreign policy. The prime director is the president himself, Donald Trump, with no other voice a close second to...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:30:53 +0000In an important article in Foreign Affairs, Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Eric Labs, a naval expert at the Congressional Budget Office, warn U.S. policymakers that America is suffering from a “ship gap”...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:30:32 +0000President Donald Trump in his first address to Congress highlighted some of the wasteful spending targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE under Elon Musk is tasked with eliminating waste, ending fraud, identifying harmful regulations, and holding the bureaucracy...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:30:09 +0000The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is uniquely adept at losing money. America’s mail carrier lost $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and has shed more than $100 billion over the past fifteen years. And now, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is suggesting the...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:29:49 +0000Hamas had been methodically planning for the destruction of Israel following the aftermath of Israel’s counterterrorist offensive Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021, according to a new report issued by the Israeli think tank The Mair Amit Intelligence...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:29:30 +0000I wrote my first article about the October 7 pogrom that very afternoon, as the first reports were coming in. Even these first reports spoke of the unspeakable — horrors that have no place in a civilized world. Since then...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:29:11 +0000We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to be followed by his Purgatory, the second of the three divisions of the Divine Comedy, and the one most keenly...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:28:52 +0000WASHINGTON — After reading in Monday’s New York Times story about actor Mel Gibson’s failure to have his gun rights restored, I asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the press briefing that afternoon about the administration’s take on...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:28:33 +0000Sometimes when running through seemingly settled arguments, we can’t see the forest of clarity for the trees of minutia thanks to bumping our faces into their distracting limbs. So, before we get to those trees, let us look at that...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:28:17 +0000Two months into Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States, sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025, the nation finds itself at a pivotal crossroads. Tariffs, once a lightning rod of his first administration, have roared back into...
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