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“One World” (opens the original)
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This week, as American financial power wobbled, American military power staggered, and American soft power plunged deeper into the abyss, the European Union and Canada declared they would pursue a new alliance.Neither Canadian nor European officials named the United States. But this was all about the United States, and more specifically its thuggish, illiberal government (although the two are increasingly fused in foreign minds.) After the Second World War, the United States founded, led, a
Don’t Pay the Dane-Geld (opens the original)
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When Viking raids on England grew into Viking invasions, local rulers often turned to a policy of paying “Dane-geld.” That’s “Dane” as in someone from Denmark, which is to say a Viking — and “geld” as in gold.It never worked. Yes, if you paid it, the Danes went away. For a while. But the very fact that English rulers ponied up money when threatened with invasion encouraged more invasions. The policy was self-defeatingA thousand years later, Rudyard Kipling turned this history into a bit of immor
On Trade War (opens the original)
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Let’s be absolutely clear about what happened:First, Donald J. Trump threatened to hammer Canada with severe tariffs, which would do terrible economic damage to Canada’s export-oriented economy. This was a severe violation of the existing free trade deal negotiated and signed by Donald J. Trump. And it was on top of earlier, deal-violating tariffs. The claimed American legal authority for Trump’s imposition of tariffs is unclear but quite possi
An Outrage Against the People of Greece! (opens the original)
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I’ve now seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I cannot hold my silence any longer: I am appalled by the racial casting of the movie. It is woke nonsense parading in the costume of an ancient epic. It is sacrilege.<img alt="" class="sizi
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