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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Irfan Khawaja
Perfect timing: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html That left some students and faculty members at the law school, considered Florida’s most prestigious, to wonder, and to worry: What merit could th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to al-Maʿarrī. I don’t think of the last part as an “unrelated aside.” It’s very much related, since this is both an imperialist and a civilizational war. The civilization it aims to destroy is the Islamicate world as s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by No War with Iran | Policy of Truth
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran by al-Maʿarrī
“In other words, the United States and Israel created the problem to which they now offer a war of aggression and regime change as solution. It’s hard to think of anything more sociopathic than that. Not a surprise when you consider who you’re de…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday praise
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crock, 6/21/25 Not sure if we’re seeing a singular mind at work here or if this is the…
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(Policy of Truth) Davenport et al on Regime Change in Iran
PoT’s own John Davenport has a piece in The Defense Post attacking the idea of regime change in Iran. John argues, reasonably enough, that a war with Iran is ill-conceived, partly because it’s based on Israeli deceptions, and partly because it’s likely to lead to terrible, even catastrophic consequences. I agree with the premises of…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III
This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II, III) look at the iconic opening battle scene from the film Gladiator (2000). Last time, we brought the sequence up through the infantry advance, observing that the tactics of the Roman arrow barrage and…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) That is an extremely sweet Garfield tee
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 6/20/25 Imagine how much funnier this strip would be if Blondie had spent any of the past…
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