Had the media delved more deeply into Weiss’s editorial input, readers today would be feasting on journalism rather than sketchy optics.
The extinguished flame teaches us to recognize when we need to wind down… initiated by ourselves.
Given Carlson’s recent adulation of Putin and Hamas, it’s not surprising that he shows admiration for an Islamist dictatorship that consistently stirs unrest in the Middle East.
The West badly miscalculated. Multiculturalism was destined to fail if it depended on a Muslim consensus on religious pluralism.
The world’s most influential moral and religious traditions rest, in part, on a people who refused to disappear.
For inspiration, we can look at the scrappiness of Podhoretz and the depth of his intellect; at his love for America and his love for truth; at his ability to fight for his tribe while bringing light into the world.
Because Lockwood (played by Gene Kelly) saw little “dignity” in the lowbrow vaudeville world his parents immersed him in, he couldn’t bear to reveal that past and felt he had to make up a new one.
The initial reaction to tragedy is to hide and retreat from the world. But we must do the exact opposite.