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Friday
Thursday
How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health
Scientists no longer have to mouth DEI shibboleths to garner funding
Trump’s brave new world
No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation of enjoying it. The standard format is one of hundreds of pages of impenetrable jargon yielding no more than nuggets of significant ideas. The Trump administration has admirably cut through that tendency to produce a National Security Strategy (NSS) that is worth reading: a coherent outlining of America’s strategic intentions on the world stage. Originally composed by Michael Anton, a brilliant mind who is sadly leaving the State Department, the document concisely lays out a Trumpian vision of America’s role in the 21st century. It stands as a corrective to
Wednesday
Is affordability a hoax perpetrated by the fake news media?
The Spectator has got a hold of a new protocol used to screen visitors from 40 countries
Is Trump becoming a lame-duck president?
He needs to show he is still in charge going into the midterms after recent setbacks
Will tech companies bend to Australia’s social media ban?
The online world is dangerous for under-16s, but barring them could be unwise and unworkable
Tuesday
The billion-dollar fraud in a Democratic utopia
Somali Americans in Minnesota have falsely claimed funds meant to feed low-income children
What Ukraine really needs from Europe
Bear hugs and kind words are not enough
The battle to stop US universities aiding Chinese repression
It goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP) – but it’s one of the most sinister components of China’s surveillance state, managing what has been described as a genocide against the Uighurs. The IJOP combines multiple systems of repression – location, messages, contacts, social media and other data from phones, together with information from checkpoints, cameras and biometric records. It then flags “suspicious” individuals for detention and forced labor. Now leading US universities have been accused of extensive collaboration with Chinese laboratories which develop technology that may be deployed or adapted for use in this system. The accusations come in a report from Strategy Risks, a
When Piers Morgan met Nick Fuentes
Piers took on a prosecutorial mode, but Nick Fuentes made no attempt to hide his beliefs
Monday
The Trump-Kennedy Center?
The President hosted the Kennedy Center Honors and joked about changing its name
Is Prince Harry about to spend a lot more time in Britain?
His solo trip to the UK in September demonstrated that he’s capable of conducting a quasi-royal visit by himself
What are Ukrainian children doing in North Korea?
For Pyongyang, any opportunity to expound its anti-American worldview is worth taking
Yes, Europe’s civilization is being erased
Trump is right to warn against mass immigration and the Islamification of Europe
Friday
Why shouldn’t Trump deport Prince Harry?
Americans are sick of being a punchline for Harry’s frantic attempts to stay relevant
Milo Yiannopoulos holds forth on the origins of homosexuality
He claimed that most gay men hate women because they hated their overbearing mothers
Thursday
Trump’s peace process pageantry
He oversaw the celebration of an accord between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the newly rebranded ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’
Halle Berry vs. Erika Kirk
Erika led a charge for a return to traditional values – while Halle likened the menopause to Covid
The desperation of the ‘Seditious Six’
Their audience isn’t actually the military, but what remains of the anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
Wednesday
Donald Trump’s affordability blues
His administration remains fixated with Herbert Hoover economics
