Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II)
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Jamie Palmer
· 35 min read
World Affairs
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Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)
And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide.
Jamie Palmer
· 33 min read
Palestine Misunderstood
Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.
Petra Marquardt-Bigman
· 10 min read
Tyranny's Mouthpiece
In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
The New York Post Whitewashes the Plight of Egypt's Copts
The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.
Samuel Tadros
· 9 min read
China's Looming Class Struggle
Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Ramallah For Beginners
Many of the most renowned symbols that unify Palestinians are connected to political revolutionaries.
Michael Humeniuk
· 9 min read
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
A Shameful Betrayal
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Hong Kong: First Line of Defence against a Rising Fascist Power
The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
Andy Lamey
· 19 min read
War at the Tip of a Rhino Horn
What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.
Nathan Edmondson
· 9 min read
A Letter From Hong Kong
The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.
Peter Baehr
· 7 min read
Keynes Has Left the Building: Remembering the 1976 Speech That Changed Modern Britain
Callaghan’s speech, a paean to the virtues of austerity economics several decades before the 2008 financial crisis, was a watershed moment in British politics.
Andrew Hindmoor
· 11 min read
How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner
Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
Nick Taber
· 9 min read