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Sep 12, 2025

Political Cynic presents History, not Hagiography.

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Sep 12, 2025

It’s like this Political Rag missed the utter RASISM of Charlie Hebdo, while celebrating Political Hysteric Allan Bloom ! Call it an Historical Re=Write!

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The intolerance on college and university campuses is nothing new, of course. It goes back at least several decades, as shown by Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987.

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Martha C. Nussbaum takes Bloom apart November 5, 1987 !

Political Cynic.

Political Cynic.

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Sep 12, 2025

Political Cynic.

SKM.

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Sep 12, 2025

American Writer winces!

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Sep 12, 2025

United States | Beyond debate

Charlie Kirk challenged liberals until the day he was murdered

The activist embodied a fiery style of conservatism and energised young voters

A selection : This reader longs for Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait, almost!

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Mr Kirk’s influence also stemmed from his reputation as a tribune of the right, someone who was unafraid to defend conservatism against an imagined horde of blinkered libtards.

Editor: The Oxbridgers at The Economist are not above using the slang of blinkered libtards ! To add a certain zest, to an onterwise wan apologetic for an American Political Hysteric: A Type that has metaticised since the Birth of The Tea Party!

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He believed that “wokism” threatened to destroy the country. America would be saved not at the ballot box but in the crucibles where culture is forged, like college campuses. A devout Christian, he wanted to carry on travelling from campus to campus, ripping the blinkers off liberal students’ eyes, educating them about the evils of critical race theory and gender ideology and urging them to start families and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.

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These have included an arson attack targeting Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania; a thwarted plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan; and another to kill Brett Kavanaugh, a Supreme Court justice. In 2022 a man broke into the home of Nancy Pelosi, the then speaker of the House of Representatives, and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer. In June a state representative from Minnesota and her husband were murdered at home. Mr Trump was lucky to survive being shot at an open-air campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

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“People who are looking for a purpose, who want to claim a historical mission, are moved by a public conversation that says ‘you’ll get attention, you’ll be lauded if you hurt someone in a public way’,” notes Rachel Kleinfeld of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank.

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Editor: The Economist Fellow Travelers apply the anodyne political medication, via Robb Willer, a sociologist at Stanford University.

Two factors tend to influence support for political violence. When elites condemn it, citizens listen: people have a follow-the-leader instinct, says Robb Willer, a sociologist at Stanford University. A second factor is partisans’ perception of what the other side thinks. Both Democrats and Republicans hold exaggerated ideas about how much their rivals tolerate violence when in fact both sides mostly abhor it. This fuels misperceptions all around.

Approval of political violence is not high in absolute terms, but it is still too high, says Mr Willer. Fixing that comes through engagement. Mr Kirk acknowledged this himself. Once a woman frostily asked him why he had come to her campus. He replied firmly, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.”

American Writer.

The surge in inflation in recent years is still being felt, fueling frustration among France’s ‘just-getting-by’ population. Falling unemployment has not stopped the poverty rate from rising.

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Sep 11, 2025

Footnote:

Americans will not find the plight of the French Under-Class as even worthy of comment or concern!

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Queer Atheist comments briefly !

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Sep 11, 2025

Editor: Like William F. Buckley Jr. , Stephens is an Oil Man’s Brat! And from the above former ‘a editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post’ , but more that just that!

Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At The Jerusalem Post, he oversaw the paper’s news, editorial, digital, and international operations, and wrote a weekly column. Stephens is the author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder,” “The Dying Art of Disagreement,” and “Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?

Editor: From the final paragraphs of Stephens’ Sept. 9, 2025 essay:

An excess of fear can lead to serious mistakes, and we’ll find out soon if Israel’s strike on Hamas’s leaders in Qatar was one of them. But if Israel’s usual critics can’t be bothered to appreciate the seriousness of the threat Israelis face daily — from Houthi drones, Palestinian gunmen, Hezbollah rocket fire displacing tens of thousands of Israelis or Israeli women being raped and slaughtered by Hamas — they will have no influence over Israeli thinking or behavior. In their one-sided vehemence, they write themselves out of any meaningful conversation about the Palestinian future.

So what effect do anti-Israel gesture politics actually have?

From Montreal to Paris to Melbourne, diaspora Jews are living through the worst era of open antisemitism since the 1930s. Leaders like Canada’s Mark Carney, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Australia’s Anthony Albanese are no doubt sincere in condemning this. But they are also contributing to a climate of anti-Jewish demonization by treating Israel as a quasi-pariah state whose presumptive supporters can be viewed as guilty accomplices. In their virtue-signaling foreign policy, they are inflicting genuine harms on their own Jewish citizens.

Long term, the Jews will survive this — as we always have. The history of governments that sought to win political favor by harming the Jews is usually a story of disgrace and decline.

Editor: Bret Stephens is more than a Zionist Apologist, but the voice of the Toxin of the Gaza Genocide, in all it’s criminal iterations! Which Mr. Stephens attempts to papers over, with an amplified Jewish Victimhood narrative!

Queer Atheist.

The surge in inflation in recent years is still being felt, fueling frustration among France’s ‘just-getting-by’ population. Falling unemployment has not stopped the poverty rate from rising.

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American Fellow Traveler.

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Sep 10, 2025

American Fellow Traveler.

American Observer.

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Sep 09, 2025

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/09/08/french-journalist-alain-duhamel-we-are-facing-both-a-crisis-of-government-and-a-crisis-of-society_6745137_5.html

American Observer.