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Dominic Green__The Weekly Standard |
As the new year is a time of new beginnings, here’s an old joke about the end of the world. A giant meteorite is headed toward Earth and will...
The French have had 14 constitutions since the revolution of 1789. Over the following two centuries, they organized themselves into five republics,...
How do you know if someone you’ve just met went to Harvard? They’ll tell you in the first two minutes. I plagiarized that joke from the English...
Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire primary school is on Parnell Square in north Dublin, near the busy thoroughfare of O’Connell Street. At 1:30 p.m. on...
Jeremy Corbyn led Britain’s Labour Party from 2015 to 2019. Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the leader of Unite, Britain’s wealthiest and most...
In his 2014 autobiography, Robert Gates, who spent three decades at the CIA and served as secretary of defense in the Bush II and Obama...
The Beatles ended as a rock band in 1970, the year John Lennon sang that “the dream is over” on his first solo album. Yet the Beatle business...
Jamal El-Haj is a Social Democratic member of Parliament for Malmö, Sweden’s third-biggest city. In 2018, he called Israel an “apartheid...
Thirty American citizens were murdered when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. At least 12 were kidnapped. Only two have been released....
Robert Malley was the State Department’s lead negotiator in the Obama and Biden administrations’ efforts to “contain” Iran’s nuclear weapons...
We are approaching a pivotal moment in history. The local war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is one front in a regional war between Israel and Iran....
Hamas’s barbaric raid on southern Israel represents the worst failure in Israeli intelligence since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As in 1973, an...
Everyone likes free speech until they’re the one being spoken about. No doubt the Swiss journalist Catherine Macherel was insulted when the...
Race is the American disease. There is no cure for the facts of the past, but you can buy absolution for feeling bad about them. That was the bargain...
Reports of the death of the legacy media may be exaggerated. Last week, some fearless reporting by the Atlantic revealed that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)...
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain...
The history of government is the story of bureaucracy. From temples, grain stores, and cuneiform tablets to ministries, standing armies, and the IRS...