Get out the private jets, it’s climate conference time! Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Foreign Secretary David Cameron, and King Charles III each took their own private jets—as did many other hypocrites world leaders—to attend the Cop28 climate conference in Dubai, where it is apparently an “open secret,” per Politico, that “the top temperature goal is […]
If you know the history of Israel, that the country was created after one-third of the world’s Jewish population was murdered by Nazis (it has yet to fully recover), it’s difficult to stomach protesters who often slip from supporting the Palestinian cause to gloating over Hamas’s terrorism and the prospect of destroying the Jewish state. […]
Israel knew: The October 7 attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas has already been widely regarded as a massive intelligence failure on the part of the Israeli military. But now, new information has been revealed that Israeli officials had access to a 40-page document, code-named “Jericho Wall,” which spelled out Hamas’ plan for […]
No more of Kissinger’s “charm”: Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and national security adviser under Nixon, has died at 100. “America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs with the passing of Henry Kissinger,” said former President George W. […]
War pause gets extended: The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been extended from four days to six. Hamas has so far released 50 Israeli hostages taken in the October 7 pogrom; Israel has released 150 Palestinian prisoners who been tried in court and held in Israeli jails. For each additional day that the […]
John Strauss is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California (USC). Earlier this month, he confronted pro-Palestinian students who had staged a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. After hearing some of the students call for the destruction of Israel, Strauss—who is Jewish—became angry. “Hamas are murderers,” he shouted in response, […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman compare and contrast Florida and California politics ahead of this week’s debate between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. 0:54—Ron DeSantis will debate Gavin Newsom this week. 24:43—Hamas begins releasing hostages. 34:29—Weekly Listener Question 45:35—Elizabeth Warren […]
Ceasefire extension? Last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day ceasefire and a deal in which Hamas would release 50 of the hostages taked October 7 in exchange for 150 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. Since then, 39 of those 50 hostages have been freed, and 117 Palestinian prisoners—all women or people 18 and […]
After the Oct. 7 murders, the first attempts to punish speakers focused on those who defended Hamas’s murders. But, unsurprisingly, things have turned to trying to suppress criticism of Israel more broadly, including criticism of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. (The slippery slope is a real phenomenon, in a culture where people reason by precedent and […]
Sam Altman reinstated: Early this morning, news broke that Sam Altman had been reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO, ending five days of tech world drama. It’s looking more and more like the board’s defense they gave for firing him—that he was not “consistently candid” in his communications with them—was no cover for a smoking gun, but […]