 Progressives don’t know how to end the ‘forever war’
Hal Brands | Bloomberg Opinion The Democratic Party’s presidential candidates want to end the “forever war” — America’s two-decade struggle against jihadist extremism. The trouble is they don’t know how.  Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think
Arthur C. Brooks | The Atlantic Professional decline is inevitable as we grow older, but misery is not. By making new commitments and cultivating new abilities, you can move from strength to strength in each stage of life.   John Lukacs, A Historian For Our Times By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | May 30, 2019 https://www.nysun.com/national/john-lukacs-95-a-historian-for-our-times/90713/ John Lukacs, R.I.P.: The American Who Understood Europe by Conrad Black National Review May 29, 2019 http://www.conradmblack.com/1482/john-lukacs-rip-the-american-who-understood-europe David Epstein On Mastery, Specialization, And Range by Russell Roberts via EconTalk Journalist and author David Epstein talks about his book Range with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Epstein explores the costs of specialization and the value of breadth in helping to create mastery in our careers and in life. What are the best backgrounds for solving problems? An Historian and a Prophet Scott P. Richert “I am an historian, not a prophet.” ∼ John Lukacs Clamat enim quodammodo omnis historia, Deus esse (“In a way all history cries aloud that God is”). ∼ Pope Leo XIII For more than 60 years, from the mid-1950s on, John Lukacs wrote and spoke on the passing of the modern age. With his death […] John Lukacs Remembered
by Richard Gamble History is a form of “chastened” thought, John Lukacs insisted; and he was right. Read More »  The Intrepid Duo: Pipes, Father and Sonby Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta
The Gatestone Institute May 20, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/58548/intrepid-duo-pipes-father-and-son THE STATESMANSHIP OF CURZON, TALLEYRAND AND BISMARK; WHO ARE TODAY'S EUROPEAN CIVILIZATIONISTS5/22/2019  Who Are Europe's 'Civilizationists'?by Dominic Green Spectator USA May 20, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/58546/who-are-europe-civilizationists 
 You're Big, Germany. Now Act Like It.
by Melvyn B. Krauss via Yahoo Finance Germany’s best friends in Europe, the Dutch, are becoming concerned that Europe’s most important country has adopted a small-country mentality. They’re right.  The First Annual Israeli Conservatism Conference
Yesterday, our colleagues in Israel hosted a historic event: the First Annual Israeli Conservatism Conference. Hundreds of patriotic Israelis gathered in Jerusalem to explore, discuss, and debate a distinctly Israeli and conservative way of approaching Israel's national concerns. And we are pleased to bring you videos of the full conference, with English translation, so that you can get a taste of the indispensable work Tikvah is doing to strengthen and defend the Jewish state. Click here to watch!  The Crisis of Left Jurisprudence by John O. McGinnis It is not clear what it will take for the Left to come up with a compelling response to originalism. Read More » The Constitution’s assignment of the judicial power to Article III judges is a real constraint on government action. Read More »
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How John Marshall Made the Supreme Court Supreme His brains and bonhomie forged a band of Federalist brethren.  The Cowardice of Middle East Studies by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2019/05/the-shame-of-middle-east-studies  Walter Russell Mead writes: Another spring, another set of political crises in the Arab world. This time autocratic rulers, long past their “sell by” dates, have fallen in Algeria and Sudan. In both countries, factionalized ruling elites, insulated for decades from political pressures other than backstairs intrigue, now scramble to satisfy angry throngs of protesters without any idea how this can be done. – Wall Street Journal
 The Greco-Persian Wars, Part Five: The Destruction Of Athens
with Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily WireAs Xerxes' victorious legions triumphantly marched into Attica, panic swept the countryside. An estimated quarter million women, children, and elderly fled the region in one of the largest mass migrations of the ancient world. Themistocles decreed Athens must be abandoned. The entire population of the city and its immediate surroundings, some 100,000 souls, evacuated to the rugged island of Salamis where, as historian Victor Davis Hanson writes: “They were gambling that their own seaman, along with the still unconquered Greek allies from the Peloponnese, could wreck the Persian fleet before they all starved—and before the onset of autumn.” 
Raghuram Rajan Lists Out Top Priorities For Modi 2.0
featuring Raghuram Rajan via Money Control Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has flagged key issues that the new government needs to tackle immediately. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers will take oath on May 30.
Modi’s Landslide Bad for India’s Soul – The Guardian
Raghuram Rajan On Why Minimum Income Works, And The RSS' 'Threat To India'
with Raghuram Rajan via Money Control Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan talks about why the economic system looks broken and how to fix it.
Snigdha Poonam and Samarth Bansal write: India is facing information wars of an unprecedented nature and scale. Indians are bombarded with fake news and divisive propaganda on a near-constant basis from a wide range of sources, from television news to global platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. But unlike in the United States, where the focus has been on foreign-backed misinformation campaigns shaping elections and public discourse, the fake news circulating here isn’t manufactured abroad. – The Atlantic
Harry I. Hannah writes: India in particular may be able to exploit the differing perspectives to position itself between the United States and China to maximize its strategic autonomy. New Delhi may seek to triangulate between the two competing hegemons, actively courting them to extract maximum benefit, and bolster its global influence in the process. Indeed, in some ways this strategy is already being employed. This reflects continuity with long-established Indian “non-alignment” preferences, but it will likely slow the burgeoning U.S.-India strategic relationship and frustrate any emerging détente between New Delhi and Beijing. – War on the Rocks
Lok Sabha polls 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party’s unsustainable Muslim bashing
Sadanand Dhume | Times of India
Truthiness and India’s elections
Sadanand Dhume | AEIdeas The comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word “truthiness,” which the dictionary defines as “the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.” In India, “truthiness” appears to be the flavor of the day. It’s one reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party ought to be quietly confident about returning to power.
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