‘As Long as It Takes’

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Russia launched its “special military operation” against Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. Russia and Ukraine had been feuding since 2014, with U.S. meddling in Ukraine exacerbating the tensions. NATO expansion...

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Robert Lipsyte: What Kind of Jew Am I?

I grew up in the least-Jewish Jewish family around in the 1950s. We celebrated Christmas every year in a big-time fashion: tree, decorations, and all. And despite the desires of my dear grandmother, there would be no temple, no Sunday Hebrew school, no religion of any...

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America Never Was the Indispensable Nation

Richard C. Longworth, in his Chicago Tribune op-ed "Is America Still the Indispensable Nation?" ponders whether America will remain the world's indispensable nation much longer. His concern is that for the first time in the half century of polling by the Chicago...

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