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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on War with Iran (21): Weapons of Mass Media Distraction by War with Iran (22): The War Must Go On | Policy of Truth
[…] American people may not have noticed the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, likely the work of Iranian proxies, but rest assured that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did, and […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on War with Iran (16): The Headaches of War by War with Iran (22): The War Must Go On | Policy of Truth
[…] them away. Those attacks were more or less nothingburger, we were told: just a couple of pinpricks, producing a couple of headaches. Or well, a small bunch of headaches. Or maybe 100+ traumatic brain injuries. Now, an attack that […] Li…
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(Policy of Truth) War with Iran (22): The War Must Go On
The American people may not have noticed the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, likely the work of Iranian proxies, but rest assured that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did, and used it as an occasion to remind us of the ongoing nature of the war that was supposed to have ended in…
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(Policy of Truth) Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk” (Part 1 of 2)
I can’t stand Michael Bloomberg. I don’t intend to vote for him, and regard his entry into the presidential race as a net loss for liberty and justice. That said, I also think that some of what’s been said in criticism of him is confused, and in some cases downright childish. Unfortunately, this is particularly…
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(Law & Liberty) Institutional Crisis? A Law & Liberty Symposium on Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build
Three reviews of Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build from Rachel Lu, Titus Techera, and Scott Yenor.
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(Law & Liberty) Failures in Moderation
Who will mind the public business? Our elites will. After all, busybodying is their job and their job is all they ever do.
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(Law & Liberty) Confessions of an Institutional Dropout
This is, as Levin says, a time to build. But institutions aren’t the only things in the world worth building.
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(Law & Liberty) A Time to Repeal and Replace
No stable common ground has been found with the Left as they march through our institutions creating new, ever more radical and unhealthy ones.
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(QC RSS) Teenage Wasteland
Brun!!!
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(The GiveWell Blog) How did we do in 2019? A preliminary look at our growth.
We see an early indication that GiveWell continued its trajectory of robust donor growth last year. The total value of donations processed by GiveWell increased 30% in 2019.[1] We’re sharing this data now because we believe it is an informative early update about our growth last year. However, GiveWell-processed donations don’t tell the full story…
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