Posts by Swedan Margen
Antisemitism Has No Place in Our Movement | National Review
Remarks from this week’s symposium in Washington, D.C. Source link
Read MoreAnduril set to acquire Orange County space surveillance company
Southern California defense tech darling Anduril Industries has struck a deal to buy Orange County space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic Solutions. The purchase for an undisclosed sum is meant to boost Anduril’s capabilities in space domain awareness, battle management and fire control. With the deal, Anduril will absorb ExoAnalytic’s network of 400 commercial telescopes around the…
Read MoreTwo Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good one. It’s a hard sort of acting to describe, a spectacle of humility and self-awareness, unshowy and confident. A businessman with a genial, chatty energy, Mae’s father, facing mortality,…
Read MoreWhat’s Gone Right in the Iran War? | National Review
Some perspective is in order. Source link
Read MoreThe Trump Administration’s Untrustworthy War Messaging Causes Market Chaos | National Review
No, the U.S. Navy did not escort a ship through the Strait of Hormuz. Source link
Read MoreTrump Prepares His Iran Off-Ramp | National Review
The time to prepare the public for the sacrifices of warfare is before launching a war, not after you’ve started shooting. Source link
Read MoreTalarico the Texas Trickster | National Review
He is not, in fact, a moderate, unless ‘moderate’ is now a synonym for ‘white man.’ Source link
Read MoreThe Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The rules could seem arcane, almost impossible to deduce. A clue containing the word “radio” could signal that “am” or “fm” belongs somewhere in the answer; “book” could imply “ot” or…
Read MoreJames Talarico’s Convenient Faith | National Review
When the Texas candidate cites his Christianity, it’s often in service of a trendy progressive position. Source link
Read More‘Epic Fury’ Gives Hope to Long-Suffering Iranians | National Review
But for Iraqi Christians, it’s déjà vu. Source link
Read MoreLife in Hitler’s Capital
According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights were turned off) and less food (beer, milk, and meat were rationed). Attendance at the city’s cinemas went up. Goethe’s play “Iphigenia in Tauris” was performed at the Volksbühne, and “Tosca” played at the…
Read MoreA Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
Vermont has long been a haven for idealists and iconoclasts, from the Putney Perfectionists of the nineteenth century to Depression-era homesteaders like Helen and Scott Nearing to the prickly Brooklynite who became the state’s most famous senator. In a 2009 book called “The Town That Food Saved,” Ben Hewitt, a northern-Vermont native, chronicled the arrival…
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