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Category Archives: America
Bloomberg: Booming Utah Needs Lower Wages and More Expensive Mortgages, in the Name of Feminism
Steve Sailer writes: Awhile ago, in explaining the real reasons behind Newsweek’s cover story about how the Ogden metropolitan statistical area in exurban Salt Lake City has the least inequality in the country, I pointed out that Ogden was second … Continue reading
158 Families Fund The 2016 Race, How Many Are Jewish?
Searching the comments on this story at NYTimes.com I notice zero mentions of “Jew.” I guess such comments are deleted immediately. Talking about politics in America without mentioning Jews is like talking about football without mentioning the quarterback. Jews are … Continue reading
The Progression Of Elite-Citizenry Relations
From the Chateau: The progression of elite-citizenry relations goes like this (using the history of America as a template): Colonialism, mass egalitarianism. The rise of an informal aristocracy of the more intelligent, ruthless, individualistic. Elite gratitude for their blessings translates … Continue reading
Haaretz: U.S. Military Aid to Israel Exceeds $100 Billion
From Haaretz Aug. 18, 2014: The United States of America is Israel’s big brother and really loves us. Israel does not have and apparently will not have another friend like it. According to a recent Congress report, Israel is the … Continue reading
The Holocaust in American Life
Why does the Holocaust play such a large role in American life? And is that a good thing? American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …Serb’s central memory, the lost Battle of Kosovo … Continue reading
What Will The World Look Like In 2050?
Stephen Walt writes May 12, 2015: Barring unlikely “black swan” events (a huge pandemic, large-scale nuclear war, etc.), we know that China and India will have at least a billion people apiece, and we know the U.S. population will be … Continue reading
Stephen Walt: Julia Pierson’s ouster is the exception that proves the rule: In Washington it is nearly impossible to get fired.
Stephen Walt writes October 3, 2014: Something unusual happened in Washington, D.C., this week: A federal official was fired ("resigned under pressure") for doing her job badly. I refer to former Secret Service chief Julia Pierson, who stepped down after … Continue reading
Follies and Fiascoes: Why Does US Foreign Policy Keep Failing?
“Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs, discusses US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War at IDEASpHERE at Harvard Kennedy School on May 16, 2014.” Stephen Walt: “Almost all the senior members of … Continue reading
WP: West Point law professor resigns after advocating attacks on colleagues ‘sympathetic to Islamist aims’
Washington Post: A West Point law professor has resigned after arguing that fellow legal scholars who criticize the war on terrorism are “treasonous” and should be arrested, interrogated and even attacked as “unlawful enemy combatants.” William C. Bradford resigned from … Continue reading
Fallout (2013)
Helen Caldicott says in this documentary: “America was testing atmospheric bombs in Nevada and they only did it when the wind blew east over the Mormon population because they knew the Mormons were so patriotic, they would never complain.” You … Continue reading