by Greg Mitchell | Mar 8, 2024 | News
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. When Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released last July, many predicted it would spark profound and long-lasting new activism, and official measures, with the aim...
by Matthew Hoh | Feb 6, 2024 | News
I was asked to answer some questions by a Polish author, Michael Krupka, for a book he is publishing later this year. The questions required me to provide my thoughts in a manner that came out resembling predictions. I’ve long been a fan of Yogi Berra’s maxim:...
by Daniel Larison | Jan 10, 2024 | News
The phenomenally stupid idea of attacking the Houthis is getting more support: Saudi Arabia is among a number of Middle Eastern countries telling the West they back strikes against the Houthis in Yemen whose attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have diminished...
by Daniel Larison | Jan 3, 2024 | News
The UK Times reports on worsening famine conditions in Gaza. Those in northern Gaza are at greatest risk: Barely any aid has reached the people in the north of Gaza, who are separated from the rest of the population by the fighting. Phone signals are cut off and large...
by William Astore | Dec 14, 2023 | News
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last night, I watched the classic film version of H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds.” Made in 1953, the film depicts a Martian invasion of the Earth, with humans being massacred in droves due to the superior...
