Episode 237: Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss
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Out of Order
A question in the spirit of Donald Trump’s tweets this morning might be: Who’s trying harder to crash U.S. markets, the president of the United States or the president of China?
After Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell didn’t forecast the loosening of monetary policy that Trump craves and China ...
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Netflix Debuts Its Obama Manifesto
This week’s widespread media blitz heralding Netflix’s broadcast of its first Obama-endorsed presentation, American Factory, was more than synchronicity. It felt as though U.S. publicists and journalists collectively exhaled their relief at finally regaining the bully pulpit.
Reviews of American Factory, a ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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Capital versus Tucker Carlson
Advertisers do not advertise on Tucker Carlson’s show to endorse the views of Tucker Carlson. They advertise on his show for the same reason they advertise elsewhere: a captive audience — in Tucker’s case, the second-largest one in cable news — might spare thirty seconds of attention that will, they hope, ...
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Trump’s Tweets: Are We Sure This Is What ‘Fighting’ Looks Like?
I’m trying to think of the most charitable, reasonable explanation for Trump’s recent string of bizarre tweets. Why would the leader of the free world tweet approvingly a deranged compliment declaring that Israelis love him like he’s the “second coming of ...
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A Michigan Court Case Shows the Right of Armed Self-Defense Is Broader Than You Might Think
Yesterday the Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a highly public and very controversial case that gun owners across the United States should applaud. In short, it demonstrates and validates the value of armed self-defense even when you do not pull the trigger and -- crucially -- have no cause to ...
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Are Your Sexual Preferences Transphobic?
Last year, a study exploring “transgender exclusion from the world of dating” was published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Of nearly 1,000 participants, the overwhelming majority, 87.5 percent, irrespective of their sexual preference, said they would not consider dating a trans person, ...
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A 2 Percent Threshold for the Next Debate Is Not Unfair
To qualify for a spot on the stage for the third Democratic debate in September, candidates must have procured donations from at least 130,000 individual donors and earned 2 percent support in at least four qualifying polls.
Ten have already hit that threshold: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián ...
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Or, Why Victimhood and Fear Won’t Preserve Liberty
Thirteen years ago, I filed a lawsuit on behalf of two brave young women — Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar. They were students at the Georgia Tech, they’d faced unconstitutional censorship at their school, and they sued to challenge four blatantly unconstitutional policies, the school’s speech code, its speech ...
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R.I.P. David Koch
Making the click-through worthwhile: breaking news that David Koch, a giant of philanthropy and the libertarian movement, has died; a couple of politicians who warn us about climate-change-driven rising oceans and worsening hurricanes pay millions for oceanfront property; an insane decision surrounding a morning ...
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