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Syrian Torture, Then and Now

The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.

Susie Linfield

14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him

Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.

Jonathan Kay

7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read

Ahmed Al-Shara is a bearded pale-skinned man. He is speaking into a telephone, wearing army fatigues.

Syria and the Changing Global Calculus

Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.

Joshua Muravchik

31 Dec 2024 · 19 min read

Timothee Chalamet is a white man in his 20s, at a microphone, wearing dark glasses, with curly brown ha

Printing the Legend

The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.

Ronald Radosh

26 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

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Memorial Daze

Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.

George Case

14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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The Tyranny of Fragility

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

Samuel Veissière

13 Jan 2025 · 8 min read

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Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis

Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.

Claire Lehmann

12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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Podcast #267: The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires

Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’

Quillette

12 Jan 2025 · 13 min read

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A Perfectly Charming Chinese Girl

Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy.

Thomas Doherty

9 Jan 2025 · 11 min read

Samuel de Champlain is a white-haired man with a beard, in 17th-century clothing, carrying a sword.

The (First) Conquest of Quebec

In the 24th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how British adventurers briefly seized Quebec and Acadia following the Anglo-French War of 1627–29.

Greg Koabel

8 Jan 2025 · 29 min read

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