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The July/August double issue of Commentary is now available.
This issue celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, the political operatives fueling the “Never Trump” movement, the state of biotech, the false humility of Silicon Valley’s AI surge, and more.
With contributions from @jpodhoretz, @jkirchick, @RabbiWolpe, @ratlpolicy, @NancyRomm, @rcbl.
Read on at commentary.org and subscribe at commentary.org/subscribe.
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Asian students out-study and thus outperform all white groups—an important phenomenon, in that theories such as Ibram X. Kendi's provide no coherent way to explain it.
Read more from @wil_da_beast630: lttr.ai/v47p
#Racism #IbramXKendi #SystemicRacism
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Although the anti-Israel activist world was hoping for mass starvation, those of us who aren’t monsters are very happy that there was no famine in Gaza. Pay attention to those who dispute this and those who show their disappointment. @SethAMandel
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We need many more Ben Shapiro’s to speak out with moral clarity. Right now, Shapiro and a few others are our modern-day Cassandras. It’s a role that has been thrust upon them by the silence or moral equivocations of academics, pundits, and politicians.
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The Authoritarian Moment says very much that requires saying. In it, @benshapiro dissects the actual mechanics of the current crackdown in a way that is undeniable. His new book is, in short, an argument-winner.
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review 👉 lttr.ai/mwlX
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Tulsi Gabbard’s isolationist leanings and JD Vance’s incoherent FDR-style cynicism toward allies are now the dominant ideological strands in Trump’s Cabinet. @SethAMandel
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We are suffocating in an environment of left-wing oppression. As @benshapiro puts it, “Trump might have authoritarian tendencies, but he did not wield authoritarian power.”
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review of the Authoritarian Moment: lttr.ai/pTlA
#Woke #CultureWar
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Even after it was repeatedly pointed out that the border agents were holding reins, not whips, in their hands, partisan journalists simply shifted their rhetoric so that they could continue to accuse the agents of malfeasance.
Read more 👉 lttr.ai/miVp
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"The protesters have been dutiful in trying to advance jihadists’ aims. But they are merely the end products of long-running, highly developed propaganda and finance networks developed to press them into service." @AbeGreenwald: lttr.ai/ASmvV
#Woke #Jihadism
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Over the course of her career, Regina Spektor has now gone from cheered to jeered for embracing her faith and her family’s story. It is a disturbing sign of a cultural shift, especially in the arts. @SethAMandel
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We are suffocating in an environment of left-wing oppression. As @benshapiro puts it, “Trump might have authoritarian tendencies, but he did not wield authoritarian power.”
Read the full review by @AbeGreenwald ▸ lttr.ai/mq2P
#Woke #CultureWar #Conservatives #Left
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The real lesson is that there is no such thing as a permanent ceasefire so long as Hamas is in power.
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Every single Jew in America should read this story to understand the current situation and where it is headed. @SethAMandel
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The American left, in @benshapiro's telling, has historically oscillated between dreams of utopia and a hunger for revolution. “But the two impulses are in conflict,” he writes.
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review of The Authoritarian Moment 👉 lttr.ai/nEuA
#Woke
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This war isn’t a playground tit-for-tat. Hamas launched this war and took captives, and it has neither surrendered nor returned all the captives. Of course the war isn’t over. @SethAMandel
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A definition of racism as “group gaps” fails utterly if 98 percent of the gaps in question vanish when we adjust for basic non-raced variables such as “how old people are” or “what scores on the big test look like this year.”
More from @wil_da_beast630: lttr.ai/xvmQ
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"Glazer was awarded an Oscar for his film Zone of Interest, which is about a man who [...] attains professional success thanks to his ability to ignore the suffering of the Jews around him. It is not, however, autobiographical." @SethAMandel" lttr.ai/AP4r0
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@benshapiro maintains that if conservatives and liberals are to resist the new reality, they must undo in reverse order the three-step authoritarian takeover.
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review of The Authoritarian Moment: lttr.ai/mzpp
#Woke #CultureWar
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The breadth of James Rosen's research is astonishing. Throughout Scalia: Rise to Greatness, he thoroughly describes and documents the formative decades Scalia’s prior biographers largely glossed over. lttr.ai/AAyKX
#Scalia #Biography #ConstitutionalLaw #SupremeCourt
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In a textbook definition of the Kinsley gaffe, Katz has revealed that not only was she motivated to litigate the claims against Kavanaugh for the advantageous political effect they would have but that her client was, too. lttr.ai/H0c0 #AmericanSociety #Kavanagh
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Israel did not become a near-hegemon by developing a military superiority that no one would want to test. It became a regional power by being forced to demonstrate its strength. @SethAMandel
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Whatever one thinks of the Biden administration’s handling of the war of in Ukraine, @TomCottonAR’s book valuably catalogs the president’s consequential failings in the run-up to Putin’s attack.
Read @AbeGreenwald's review of Only the Strong ▸ lttr.ai/5ebA
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@benshapiro leans heavily on the work of French physicist Serge Galam to answer the bedeviling question: How does a small minority of leftist radicals wield such outsize power over the larger population?
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review ▸ lttr.ai/m4av
#Woke
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"Harvard’s latest attempt to combat the deep-seated antisemitism on campus is to double down on using diversity offices—the same dangerous offices that [...] have promoted extremism and silence for well over two decades now." @SamuelAbramsAEI: lttr.ai/AJ6xc
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Disempowering Women in the Name of Progress
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#GirlScouts #Progressives #Woke #AmyComeyBarret
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"The worst part [of AOC's tweet] is the repeated claim that AIPAC is an enemy of the state, a dangerous fifth column seeking to destroy American democracy. She is saying this while there’s a massive campaign of global violence against Jews." @SethAMandel: lttr.ai/AJOyw
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"As Owens's audience has grown, so has her comfort level with airing not only her reactionary takes on Democrats, obese celebrities, and George Floyd, but also her raging, out-and-out anti-Semitism."
Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AQiaG
#CandaceOwens #AntiSemitism #Media
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The biggest threat to racial comity today may well be not actual bigotry or conflict but rather the false promotion of narratives about racial conflict that verge on conspiracy theory.
Read more from @wil_da_beast630: lttr.ai/ell1
#Race #America #Economy #Racism
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Systemic Wokeness
@AbeGreenwald reviews The Authoritarian Moment, by @benshapiro 👉 lttr.ai/ooWC
#Woke #CultureWar #Conservatives #Left
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Someone who cites the “Gaza Health Ministry” is not someone who has been fooled by one side; it is someone who has chosen one side. @SethAMandel
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"At this point, Ocasio-Cortez essentially exists to live-tweet a 2024 adaptation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s Henry Ford-ism for the TikTok generation." @SethAMandel ▸ lttr.ai/AT6A9
#AIPAC #AOC #AntiSemitism #GeorgeLatimer #JamaalBowman
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Today's @Commentary podcast examines how three pillars of the U.S. COVID response—masking, vaccination rather than natural immunity, and the denial of Chinese responsibility—are all collapsing under the harsh light of scientific reality.
Tune in: lttr.ai/8onw
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October 7 was the most documented pogrom in history, with the murderers filming themselves butchering their victims. Yet within weeks, their deeds were being obfuscated, trivialized, forgotten, or simply denied.
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An oppressor–oppressed narrative is trapping the world in a state of false consciousness, notes @wil_da_beast630.
What ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’ Have in Common 👉 lttr.ai/AMDRq
#FreePalestine #BLM #Hamas
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The Massacre That Never Was came out in Israel in 2018. It is indisputably the authoritative account of the battle that began the morning of April 9, 1948.
Read @SethAMandel's full review ▸ lttr.ai/0wsR
#History #MiddleEast #DeirYassin
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In his criticisms and recommendations, @TomCottonAR is guided above all else by an appreciation of the Founders’ aim to “secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” as the Constitution has it.
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review: lttr.ai/38J8
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The Flynn Transcript Does Not Vindicate His Accusers
By @EliLake
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#Russia #Politics #Michaelflynn
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@AbeGreenwald reviews 'The Authoritarian Moment' by @benshapiro ▸ lttr.ai/mlu2
#Woke #CultureWar #Conservatives #Left
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After 30 years, we have learned that Israel was right about two things: that Iran was trying to obtain a nuclear weapon to supercharge its killing machine, and that Israel would take action if all else failed. @SethAMandel
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"As the Washington Free Beacon's indefatigable Iran reporter Adam Kredo has documented, the Biden administration has long known that money given to Iran and to the Palestinians was frequently diverted to Hamas, a designated terrorist group."
Read more: lttr.ai/AI5Q0
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The launch of the GHF should have been treated as a major step toward ending the war and prioritizing the wellbeing of Gazans over that of Hamas. Instead, the fact that GHF excluded Hamas was treated as a drawback. @SethAMandel
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The FBI was not just in the habit of deceiving the FISA court. An internal FBI memo from April 21, 2000, found that field agents often ignored limitations in the surveillance warrants themselves.
Read more from @EliLake 👉 lttr.ai/42rl
#FBI #CIA #JusticeDepartment
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A sneak peek at the new Commentary Podcast... now with video!
As the kids say, be sure to like and subscribe to stay updated with our latest episodes.
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"When my center-right audience discovers my public-radio work, the only reaction I’ve noticed is mild curiosity. [...]
But when my center-left public-radio listeners find out about my right-wing leanings, it’s trouble."
Read more from @rcbl 👉 lttr.ai/ASxdZ
#NPR
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Coates’s repeated insistence, contrary to all historic and genetic evidence, that ancient Egyptians were dark-skinned sub-Saharan Africans—memorable in the sense that it indicates the level of deep unseriousness that permeates this book.
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In the Authoritarian Moment, @benshapiro lays out a valuable account of the revolutionary groundwork, a century in the making, that went into the establishment of the new dispensation.
Read @AbeGreenwald's full review 👉 lttr.ai/n60Q
#Woke #CultureWar
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The Kendi definition of racism so popular today simply fails when subjected to logical analysis. This leaves thinking people facing an obvious question: “So what does racism mean?”
Read more from @wil_da_beast630 👉 lttr.ai/yW52
#Racism #IbramXKendi #SystemicRacism
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From the November 2016 issue: The Party of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism - by Douglas Murray bit.ly/2dr553U
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Mamdani is not a “human rights activist,” he’s an anti-Israel extremist who uses the language of human rights to crusade against the one Jewish state. This single-minded obsession made even some of his allies in the legislature uncomfortable. @SethAMandel
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"Rashida Tlaib’s enthusiastic participation in a terrorism pep rally this weekend serves as a reminder that her hatred of Jews and her admiration for political violence has no limiting principle."
@SethAMandel ▸ lttr.ai/ATF7y
#AntiSemitism #Hamas #Israel #PFLP
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"Democracy might die in darkness, as the Washington Post’s self-aggrandizing motto proclaims, but journalism suffers when despicable apologists for terrorism like Karen Attiah are given powerful platforms to spread propaganda and rationalize hate." lttr.ai/AKEhW
#Media
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Our current obsession with gender identity has led us to treat the pronouncements of four-year-olds (“No, Mommy, I’m not a boy”) with the reverence once reserved for oracles.
Read more from @AbigailShrier on @DrDebraSoh
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#Gender #Research
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@MeghanMcCain from ABC's "The View" joins the @Commentary podcast to talk about Joe Biden's inauguration as president, the fallout from the January 6 Capitol Building riots, and what it will be like to host a daytime talk show without Trump.
Tune in ▸ lttr.ai/b7ut
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@benshapiro joins the @Commentary podcast to discuss the ongoing nightmare in Afghanistan, which is evolving from a debacle into a hostage crisis. But Americans get no respite at home as COVID has evolved from a pandemic into a lifestyle brand.
Tune in: lttr.ai/k4Zc
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A true CDC reform effort would also entail a significant move away from behavioral health and back toward the agency’s original communicable-disease focus.
Read more from @TeviTroy 👉 lttr.ai/4S1s
#CDC #RochelleWalensky #Pandemic #COVID
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Wokesters took every scattered strain of ill-considered social-justice leftism—from defunding the police to erasing biological sex—put it in a box, wrapped it in a bow, and labeled it “woke.” And it turned out to be a gift to the right. @AbeGreenwald: lttr.ai/9bGO
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It turns out that Columbia had something of a Nazi problem on campus. They were privileged kids in masks, but functionally Nazis nonetheless, obsessed with Nazi symbolism and Nazi language. @SethAMandel
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Many of Felicia Sonmez's fellow female journalists at elite media institutions have learned that weaponizing their fragility, claiming trauma, and emotionally blackmailing their employers yields professional benefits.
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#Media #Journalism #Trauma
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We are an unambiguously patriotic voice for the glories of the American experiment. We are a full-throated advocate for the glories of Western civilization and the gifts it has bestowed upon the world.
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The crimes against the Bibas family are indeed the symbol of the anti-civilizational menace that is Hamas—but also of the cowardice of the political and cultural leaders of the enlightened West.
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"The Y isn’t backing down from its general 'yes, we are in fact a Jewish institution' posture. That is far more consequential than whether Colm Tóibín and Roxane Gay ever come back around to the Y." @SethAMandel
A Jewish Institution Takes a Stand 👉 lttr.ai/AKbtP
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In 2019, a graduate student named Zach Goldberg examined the dramatic increase in mainstream media uses of phrases such as “whiteness,” “white privilege,” “critical race theory,” and “systemic racism,” among others.
Read more: lttr.ai/iM9A
#Transgender #Media #Race
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For all of the former prosecutors and pundits appalled that Flynn, who confessed to lying to the FBI, is no longer being charged with that crime, where is their outrage at all of the lies told by his accusers?
Read more from @EliLake 👉 lttr.ai/RHFt
#FBI
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The relative obscurity of these lawmakers is due to the fact that they responded early and aggressively to the threat posed by lawless mobs.
Read the full article by @NoahCRothman: The Mayors Whose Names You Don’t Know
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#Riots #Unrest #Violence
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"If American education is having yet another Great Awakening on reading instruction, much of the credit is due to Emily Hanford, a reporter and podcaster with American Public Media."
Read more from @rpondiscio ▸ lttr.ai/AKKLH
#Reading #Literacy #Teaching #Education
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Democrats can’t countenance the true meaning of Biden’s shortcomings and misdeeds. And Republicans can’t cop to the unprecedented transgressions of Trump. And so both sides proceed as if their standard-bearer were not facing serious trouble. @AbeGreenwald: lttr.ai/AF3yr
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"Nearly all American Jews disagree with JVP and INN’s anti-Zionism. But AOC & Co. aren’t looking for consensus Jewish opinion, they’re looking for Jewish flak jackets."
The Foul Tokenization of Anti-Zionist Jews, @SethAMandel ▸ lttr.ai/AJcFx
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"Nothing would be more poetically just than for the Squad to have made their own rhetoric a self-fulfilling prophecy—for them to have had no reason to fear Jewish voters until they lied about fearing Jewish voters." @SethAMandel lttr.ai/AT79j
#AOC #AntiSemitism
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The ACA did not, as promised, transform our health-care system or bend the cost curve down. But it was a big deal because the way it was passed has transformed our political system.
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While corruption is the most significant challenge to Iraq today, that in and of itself is a testament to the progress the country has made in the past 20 years. Consider that it has survived two terror wars since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
@EliLake: lttr.ai/8VmT
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For more than a quarter century now, the post–Cold War progressive left has made a fetish out of violent expressions of political zeal.
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@charlesmurray is likely wrong about the causes and extent of the phenomena he documents in Facing Reality, but he is correct about their implications.
Read the full article by @wil_da_beast630: Charles Murray, Wrong and Right
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#Crime #Race #Racism
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"There is no such thing as an 'international' organization in Gaza. There is only international funding. Once you understand that, you can see the conflict much more clearly. Once in Gaza, everything is an adjunct of Hamas."
@SethAMandel ▸ lttr.ai/AMWOC
#Hamas
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What are the chances that those who abide by extended shelter-at-home recommendations in LA will preserve their sanity?
Joined by LA-native @benshapiro, the @Commentary podcast wonders how the West Coast will fare in these times.
Give a listen ▸ lttr.ai/Qwsy
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"How could this happen? What made objectively intelligent people go along with clear nonsense, of a 'there’s a pregnant nurse out here robbing five black guys of a bike they rented' variety, for half a decade?" @wil_da_beast630
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#Karen #Racism
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From the October 2015 issue: The Hard Untruths of Ta-Nehisi Coates - by Kyle Smith - bit.ly/1OyWirP
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