Author: Hugo Gurdon
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A chance to transform the Middle East
The most revolutionary force in the Middle East is President Donald Trump. America and its ally Israel, achieving unparalleled levels of military and intelligence integration, have decapitated the Iranian terrorist regime, devastated its command structures, destroyed its weapons, and sunk a substantial proportion of its navy — they’re “at the bottom of the sea,” Trump…
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Trump’s flood tide of diplomacy
President Donald Trump moves like an ocean. It is often violently stormy on the surface, so tempestuous that it is dangerous to get anywhere near it. But that apparent and sometimes real danger does not determine whether the tide is coming in or going out — ebbing toward failure or flooding toward success. The Trump…
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The censors are in retreat
Mark Zuckerberg’s Jan. 7 backflip ending Facebook censorship is welcome. “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes,” he said, “simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.” He finally agrees with those of us who’ve long argued that fact-checkers are sinners like everyone else and a crummy…
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Rowling starts rolling back the woke tide
The left-wing fight to stop people refuting woke orthodoxy with truth is nowhere more intense now than in Scotland, of all places. And there are encouraging signs for the forces of veracity. Those seeking to suppress facts have been driven into retreat because the army of truth has acquired the most powerful conceivable champion in…
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PERSPECTIVE: Restoring America
America is going wrong. That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial. Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline. But fewer people acknowledge it, for it is difficult to say such a terrible thing…
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COLUMN: Gaslighting for critical race theory
The conclusion of George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” includes these two sentences: “Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what fascism is, how can you struggle…