Senior government officials from Syria and Jordan held talks regarding tariff policy and tax regulation today, reports Al-Jazeera

Jones and Strummer as “cultural code breakers” is interesting: Strummer’s dad was an Our Man in Havana type and their subject matter tracks Graham Greene novels: London housing, petty crime, Cold War paranoia, Latin American adventures. Their later method of composing (lyrics in…

I’m reminded that in response to 9/11 Biden thought it’d be a great idea to send $200 million to Iran “no strings attached”

SCRUTON: AMERICA - May 19-20, 2024,
Washington DC

A program at Georgetown University and American Enterprise Institute American Enterprise Institute.
With contributions by Dominic Green, Justin Shubow, Fisher Derderian, Daniel Cullen, Yuval Levin, Daniel Mahoney and yours truly, among others.

Tonight, a brave young Jewish woman will take to Europe’s biggest stage.

She will be bullied by crowds of antisemites who either supported a massacre of Jews at a music festival, or think the follow-up should be a boycott of their country at a music festival.

Am Yisrael Chai

'Globalize the intifada,' they said.

I’m sure I’d make a terrible ad man myself, but “we’ll take all the things you love and destroy them” doesn’t seem like a winning pitch

In minor literature[s], monalisavitti interviews Max Lawton, translator of many of Sorokin’s novels. In The Wall Street Journal, Dominic Green reviews a book on “learning to paint”. In The Yale Review, Ben on Paul Auster. In Plough Quarterly, Benjamin Myers reviews a recent poetry collection. (1/2)

I must say I thought this a rather good study, almost Cartier-Bresson in quality. I have of course been yelled at before, but not with a megaphone pointed at my face from a few feet away. Perhaps a metaphor for the future we all face, a voice, shouting dim slogans into a…

Barbarian invasion.

Exhibit A: The bookcases I built housing my book collection.
Exhibit B: How the new owners chose to use the space.

(I can never unsee this.)

The graying liberal who thinks the modern 'progressive' movement is an extension of liberalism and not a repudiation of everything he ostensibly believes in.

Please take a few minutes to watch my father's speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 1997:
“It is the purpose of these annual Holocaust remembrances . . . not only to honor the memory of the six million Jews and three or four million other poor souls caught in in this…

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.”

Who will spew demoralising bile into the public discourse now?

Today I did an analysis of the home pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal regarding their coverage of demonstrations and counter-protests on college campuses. The NYTimes accuses pro-Jewish students of violence, while the WSJ investigates the extensive preparation of pro-Hamas groups,…

'In the Soviet Union, many writers denounced their imprisoned friends without being told to. Here, they check their social-media traffic first.'

Absolutely brutal piece on the pro-Palestinian activists' authoritarian campaign against PEN America theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Ok, so you will squeeze the funding, get the administrators to act, crack down on activism, etc. What are you going to do about the faculty and the enormous radical intellectual tradition and corpus of social sciences accumulated from the 60s till today and which has no rival?

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Campus)

2/5/76: [2/2] The lady drew herself up: 'I will not waltz with you for 3 reasons. First, this is not a waltz it is the Czech national anthem. Second, you are drunk. My third and greatest objection is that I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague'.

Seems relevant.