Ron Radosh
Historian, Columnist for The Daily Beast; Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute; contributor to The Bulwark, and author of many books.
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When conservatives become revolutionaries
Conservatism used to mean a resistance to change. Not anymore.
Ron Radosh
Damon Linker shows how conservatives have become what they once opposed.
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Biden VP Favorite Karen Bass’ Journey From the Radical Fringe
California congresswoman was active in the Venceremos Brigade the 1970s
Ron Radosh
In Tablet magazine, Armin Rosen has an enlightening article about one aspect of Karen Bass' past. Has she changed? It seems so, but her staff's answers are not candid
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Olivia de Havilland, Cold Warrior — Rest in Peace | The American Spectator
Yesterday morning I caught a headline I expected to see many years ago: “Actress Olivia de Havilland, Dead.” I’ve long...
Ron Radosh
Paul Kengor takes up the De Haviland story about her principled anti-Communism in a longer amount of space than I had in today's Journal. It's an excellent article
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De Havilland Saved Hollywood From Stalin
A true liberal, the actress was steadfast against Communists.
Ron Radosh
The death of Olivia De Haviland produced great tributes to her art as an actress. Let us also remember her valiant fight in old Hollywood as an active liberal anti-Communist, who waged a successful fight against the Hollywood Reds
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How Olivia de Havilland Bucked Dalton Trumbo And Helped Save Hollywood From Itself
Somehow, the celebrations of the 101-year-old two-time best actress Oscar winner overlooked her finest moment.
8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster
You may think you know how bad Nov. 3 will be. But all signs point to something far, far worse.
Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland
The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered.
Ron Radosh
The great Anne Applebaum shows who Trump is carrying out the Putin playlist re Portland.
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Ron Radosh
Anne Applebaum explains Trump's frightening Portland strategy- and why he's playing from Putin's script.
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Trump's New Ad Is Amazing - The Bulwark
A couple weeks ago the Trump campaign rolled out an ad proclaiming that the president would protect a statue of Jesus from the woke left. The only problem was that the statue pictured in the ad was the famous Christ the Redeemer from Rio de Janeiro....
Ron Radosh
Jonathan V. Last's article about the latest falsehoods in a Trump ad is both sad, typical and hilarious. Don't miss it!
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The Systemic Racism Trap | RealClearPolitics
Is America a deeply racist society, whose very institutions perpetuate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? Unfortunately, to answer No -- even a qualified No -- is becoming harder by the...
Ron Radosh
Linda Chavez has written a most important article about the role of racism in our country and how to deal with it. I hope that lots of you read it.
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The Man Who Opposed Hate
Among John Lewis’ many virtues: He refused to normalize Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, even as other prominent African American celebrities and politicians did
Trump declares war on America
Beware the president's Portland plot
Ron Radosh
In The Week, Damon Linker explains Trump's Portland strategy, as right-wing websites play along. will the Left be so stupid as to take the bait?
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Peter Beinart's Wedge
The don of liberal Zionism has come out against a two-state solution. His argument is delusional and messianic. But that’s not the real problem with it.
2010 Peter Beinart Condemns Himself as Anti-Israel
Peter Beinart. Photo: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons. Daniel Paul Rubenstein found an interview that Jeffrey Goldberg did with Peter Beinart …
A new intelligentsia is pushing back against wokeness
“Racial essentialism is very reductive and actually oppressive,” Valdary told me. “It reduces us as individuals to our immutable characteristics.”
Ron Radosh
Batya-Ungar Sargon in The Forward has a terrific column on the opposition to woke culture by African-American intellectuals
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Laura Ingraham’s Descent Into Despair
At some point, her Reaganite optimism slowly hardened into something better described as a form of apocalyptic pessimism.
Ron Radosh
Anne Applebaum has written a most insightful and important essay about what made Laura Ingraham drift from being a Reaganite to Trumpist extremist.
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Demography Is Not Destiny
John Judis and I came up with the idea of an emerging Democratic majority. A dangerous misinterpretation of it helped elect Trump.
Ron Radosh
Ruy Teixeira has a very important analysis of why the Demos lost and who they must gain votes from to win.
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Woke America Is a Russian Novel
The metaphysical gap between mid-19th-century Russia and early-21st-century America is narrowing
Ron Radosh
Peter Savodnik, a scholar of Russian literature, has written a brilliant article comparing life in pre-revolutionary Russia to our situation today, and the growth of the woke culture.
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Bari Weiss Was Too Honest for the New York Times - The Bulwark
Bari Weiss brought keen intelligence and broadminded liberalism to the editorial pages of the New York Times. So naturally, she had to go. Liberalism—by which I mean a commitment to open inquiry—is fast disappearing from American life. The right...
Ron Radosh
Of all the comments and editorials on Bari Weiss and The NY Times, Mona Charen's is the best one. She also does not exempt the right. She proves her point since Trump has now tweeted his support for Weiss
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Resignation Letter — Bari Weiss
Ron Radosh
Bari Weiss' letter of resignation to the NY Times publisher is powerful and sad at what it says about a news source that was once "The paper of record."
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Don’t Give Up on the Two-State Solution - The American Interest
Unilateral Israeli annexation would be a mistake, but Peter Beinart’s one-state solution is an approach that compounds one mistake with another.
Ron Radosh
Dennis Ross and David Makovsky take apart Peter Beinart's solution to the Israel-Palestinian issue and show how foolish it is
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