‘Will Jewish college students be secure this fall?’
Jason L. Riley at The Wall Road Journal
“Previous habits die laborious,” says Jason L. Riley, and it “is not clear that Jewish college students returning to campus within the fall will really feel any safer than they did within the spring, when buildings had been occupied, property was destroyed, lessons had been held remotely, and commencement ceremonies had been canceled.” Schools are “making a present of addressing antisemitism, however they’re additionally equivocating.” College students “disrupting lessons, threatening fellow college students and calling for the genocide of Jews is not protected speech.”
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‘JD Vance retains promoting his soul. He is obtained loads of patrons.’
Ed Simon at The New York Occasions
A model of striving “so robust that it compels Faustus to promote what’s most important to him, should lie someplace within the make-up of Sen. J.D. Vance,” says Ed Simon. Whereas “all politicians are bold,” there’s “one thing notably noxious about Mr. Vance’s posturing, which exceeds the run-of-the-mill Machiavellian self-interestedness that characterizes politics.” Vance, a “doable inheritor to the MAGA motion,” can also be an “infernal creation of the highly effective liberals who championed his writing and elevated his platform.”
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‘Shannen Doherty was painted as a bad-girl “Veronica” stereotype. She deserved higher.’
Rhonda Garelick on the Los Angeles Occasions
Shannen Doherty “represented a little bit of reverse typecasting,” says Rhonda Garelick. She “developed an off-camera ‘unhealthy woman’ status” that was a “basic instance of how a lot popular culture depends on tales of excellent and unhealthy women.” This was “only a small a part of a a lot bigger, extra profound narrative about heaven and hell, sin and morality.” Doherty must be “seen as worthy of redemption, or higher nonetheless, to be worthy of a extra advanced, trustworthy and human narrative.”
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‘Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed Armenians. It ought to pay a value.’
Thomas Becker at Newsweek
Azerbaijan’s 2023 assault on Nagorno-Karabakh was “not merely a regional difficulty however a profound violation of human rights that calls for world motion,” says Thomas Becker. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is “always ratcheting up vitriolic rhetoric and aggressive motion towards Armenians.” The world “can start redeeming itself by holding Azerbaijan to account,” which might “not solely represent justice however can be essential to keep away from incentivizing bad-faith gamers on the earth ecosystem from finishing up different atrocities.”
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