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The Clash at 25
Huntington’s Legacy

Samuel Huntington was not right about everything. Rather, his greatness lay in his ability to conceptualize big ideas in a wide variety of fields.

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Higher Ed Watch
Does Harvard’s Undergrad Admission Policy Discriminate?

The court may find that it does, but that doesn’t mean Harvard or any other university should switch to purely objective, merit-based criteria for admissions.

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Radical Sacrifice
The Useful Errors of Terry Eagleton

Eagleton’s diagnosis of the central problem of postmodernity is spot-on, even if his denials of his own postmodern outlook are less convincing.

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The Macron-Benalla Affair
Jupiter and Rambo

“Grotesque speculations” are crippling France when we need it most.

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Higher Ed Watch
The Ironic Irresponsibility of Tuition-Free College Schemes

Plans to make public state universities tuition free would harm the social cohorts they’re meant to help.

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Pushing the Limits
Beijing’s “National Security” Gambit for Hong Kong

If its Indo-Pacific initiative is to be credible, the United States must find way to address Beijing’s projection of ideological influence throughout the region, including Hong Kong.

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Yehiye Tov
“Flaming Kites,” Hezbollah, and Iranian Nukes

Bucking perceptions abroad of a country in crisis, life is good in Israel, even if existential threats loom just beyond the horizon.

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Immigration in America
Suffer the Little Children: The View from El Paso

A visit to the El Paso-Juarez “borderplex” points to the difficulties involved in recovering the sensible center on immigration policy.

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No Exit
Left Rule or Mob Rule?

Getting rid of Sarah Jeong will set a terrible precedent. So will keeping her.

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Delirium Trumpens
Some Dare Call It Treason

Trump’s Helsinki remarks impugned his judgment, not his loyalty, and the idea that disagreement with the intelligence agencies constitutes treason is profoundly disquieting.

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