Extraordinary. AFP says its journalists are in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has never happened since the agency was founded. Never has any of its journalists been starved to death
https://t.co/peKlEyl4u7
"The people of this country can't afford to let the President run the country by himself, even foreign affairs, any more than domestic affairs." -Daniel Ellsberg
Sunday Reading: The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
This week’s piece (link in bio):
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The irony being that Ayn Rand talked a lot about the importance of reason and independent thinking, and yet her insights rarely got beyond these kind of thought terminating cliches.
"This new Mandate reflects a very different phase of American conservatism. While the right may be hoping to recapture the élan of the early Reagan administration,(...) the document reveals a fractious, internally divided movement."
https://t.co/bF0RcthD9s