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2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (275+ words) Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Michael Reneau to discuss our latest editorial on a post-Trump reality, comments by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin as the U.S. pursues negotiations for an end to…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (370+ words) With all that most of us have to do there is only so much that most of us can absorb or that most of us have time for in our busy days, our normal days. I would term this desired…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (835+ words) This light-producing rival, of course, was the sun. And Bastiat satirically demanded “a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains… in short, all openings, holes, chinks and fissures” to ensure that no sunlight…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (725+ words) Corruption in Ukraine is a long standing issue. As the Guardian headlined more than a decade ago: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe – Guardian, Feb 6 2015 The inflow of money to Ukraine since the beginning of the war…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (417+ words) For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rather than serfdom?...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (786+ words) “America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.” ~ William Blum One meaningless jingoistic cliché I am subjected to constantly is “I love my country.” This…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (935+ words) European news headlines have been dominated by Germany’s accusation that Russia carried out a drone attack on Leipzig airport. The accusation is unprecedented and provocative. Moscow furiously rejected the claim and pointed out that Berlin had provided no evidence. European…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1573+ words) The twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks will arrive this Friday but I’m not sure how much attention that date will receive. The Iraq War was one of the earliest and most important of those. In a recent interview with former…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (790+ words) Walk through the financial districts of London, New York, or Singapore at six in the evening, and you’ll catch the last act of a performance that grows harder to maintain by the quarter. The tailored suits still stream from glass…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (718+ words) It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the…...