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[ad_1] A colleague on an academic list asked if I agreed that the Holocaust wasn’t unique, but just one of a series of modern genocides. Here is how I responded: On the contrary, I’d say that (a) the Holocaust was not unique only in that genocide is not unique; (b) all genocides are unique, as each has its own causes and trajectory; and (c) that there are unique aspects of the Holocaust that differntiate in ways that make it worth studying, for example (some of these are more important than others, but all are interesting): (1) Unlike the typical genocide,…

[ad_1] On July 17, the en banc Third Circuit decided Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs v. Attorney General of New Jersey. Eleven members of the en banc court ruled that New Jersey’s “assault firearms” ban and prohibition on “large capacity magazines” violate the Second Amendment. The majority opinion was written by Judge Arianna Freeman, a Biden appointee. I concur with Ed Whelan that Freeman deserves some credit for taking this strong stand, and disqualifying herself from any future Supreme Court vacancy. Ed also praises Judge Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, another Biden appointee, who joined the majority opinion. She too…

[ad_1] “The idea that deficits don’t matter as long as you have your own currency is just wrong. In a world of scarce resources, someone always pays.”- N. Gregory Mankiw Some are calling recent political events America’s “socialist moment,” as many libertarians have been predicting for a generation that this surge would occur. The current “socialist moment” is not a sudden ideological rupture, but the inevitable consequence of a century of institutional erosion driven by a bloated interventionist state. For decades, the federal government has systematically distorted the market through central bank manipulation of interest rates, predatory tax structures, and…

[ad_1] Hanna Flats, Idaho Panhandle National Forest. Photo: Paul Sieracki. Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest.  Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled for the Alliance, halting the project and requiring the Forest Service to follow the…

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[ad_1] Turning beloved stories woke or repurposing destroyed monuments is the beginning of a process that ends with real violence. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Abdul el Sayed is a test of whether or not a socialist candidate can succeed in a purple battleground state. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] I guess we’re all working-class now: “I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told The New York Times in an interview published over the weekend. “So someone making $250,000 a year is working class?” reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro pushed back. “I haven’t asked myself where it starts and stops,” answered Mamdani. “What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren’t able to do so, I think…

[ad_1] Over the weekend the Pentagon announced that four more US soldiers have been killed in President Trump’s war on Iran. That brings the total to 17, but many believe the real number of dead US servicemembers is much higher than that. The Pentagon has claimed it has no obligation to reveal how many military personnel have been injured, which suggests that number may be much higher than we are hearing. Many of these injuries will be horrific and life-altering. Back on April 12th, President Trump told Fox News that Iran, “has no cards. Their navy is gone. Their air…

[ad_1] Britain’s latest prime minister, the seventh in 10 years, registered his first policy failure even before he took office. Andy Burnham’s only concrete pledge on the doorstep of Number 10 this morning was to end rough sleeping in Britain. It didn’t take long for journalists to discover that he had failed in a similar promise when he became mayor of Greater Manchester. Indeed, rough sleeping roughly doubled during his last five years in office from its low point. Homelessness has become an intractable problem in the UK, as anyone who visits British inner cities can testify. This is largely…