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Seeing Putin for who he is
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online urges Americans to see Russia’s strongman for the villain he is. Putin’s Russia is a terror-state. Day after day, year after year, it kills…
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Chinese Democracy Could Be More Than Just a Guns’N’Roses Album Title
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online scrutinizes the word “democracy.” He notes interest in the concept in an unexpected place. Students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts made a…
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Appealing to the People, Unless They’re Elite
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online explores politicians’ use of the words “people” and “elite.” [W]ho are the people? Some people? My people? In a speech last year, Senator Josh…
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The Wokeness ‘Nightmare’ Detailed
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online documents one case of damaging wokeness in action. You will want to get to know David Mastio a bit. He’s a veteran journalist, and…
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Putting Communist China’s Crimes in Context
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online ponders communist China’s impact. The Soviet Union lasted 74 years. Communist China is only two years short of that mark. The PRC got going…
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America on the verge of divorce?
Jay Nordlinger reviews for National Review Online a new book about our political divisions. Campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina often spoke…
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Ongoing debate over the word ‘conservative’
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online ponders the meaning of an important term. Twenty-five years ago, I met Scott Morris, when we both worked at The Weekly Standard. He asked,…
Education
Highlighting Mitch Daniels’ success at Purdue
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online chats with Purdue University president and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. During his tenure at Purdue, he has been known across the country for…
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Attacking the you’re-on-your-own narrative
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online takes aim at a popular, and highly misleading, attack on conservative public policy. One line in particular grabbed me by the throat. It comes…
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National Review columnist tackles a tough question of definition
Jay Nordlinger addresses for National Review Online a question that tends to occupy quite a bit of attention on the political right: What is conservatism? If you call yourself a…
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Pronoun trouble
No, I’m not referencing the famous “Rabbit Seasoning” interchange between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Instead, I’m highlighting a mildly disturbing column at National Review Online from Jay Nordlinger. Recently,…
Health Care
Politicization of Everything, health care panic edition
Once politics was about only a few things; today, it is about nearly everything. — James Q. Wilson There was never any respite from politics. There was no “safe zone.”…