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Foreign desk: If It’s Not a US War, Who Cares?
President Trump “calls himself the ‘president of peace’ and says he has ‘ended eight wars,’ ” notes the Washinton Examiner’s Byron York. Trouble is, “hardly anyone cares.”
Absent “a shooting war involving the United States going on,” Americans don’t suppose a lot about overseas coverage.
In an October Gallup ballot, simply 1% cited it as a prime concern. Trump says he’s ended wars between: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Hamas.
“Did you know about all of these conflicts? Maybe not.” Sure, if he might “settle a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia, fine.”
But “Trump was elected to do something about the economy.”
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Educator: Making Liberal Arts Matter
“The liberal arts promise to cultivate wisdom, but wisdom alone no longer pays the rent,” sighs Samuel J. Abrams at Real Clear Education.
Kevin Carey’s New York Times essay on small faculties closing is “both elegy and warning,” Carey “misses a deeper truth” behind the disaster: “Colleges have stopped proving why knowledge matters to the civic life of a free people.”
With AI “rewriting the rules of knowledge work” and college students needing the instruments to query these systems, “the mission of liberal arts colleges must adapt.” Liberal arts college students need an “education that integrates reflection with practice.”
In place of the “collapsing” ivory tower, campuses have to be “a bridge between contemplation and action, tradition and innovation, mind and world.”
From the suitable: Guardrails Needed
The “astonishing fraud unfolding in Minnesota” proves GOP reformers had been proper to call out such abuse within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, argues The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.
“ ‘No one was doing anything about the red flags,’ one defendant’s attorney told The New York Times. ‘It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it.’ ”
More, flags the board: When officers flagged suspect filings, scammers “cried racial discrimination and the money kept flowing.”
President Trump emphasised the position of ethnic Somalis, “but the main problem” isn’t “ethnicity or migration.
It’s the incentives for indolence and fraud on the coronary heart of the welfare state. All that free money with few guardrails is an invitation to theft.”
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Culture critic: Celebs’ Lame Anti-Israel Bias
Sting, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood and different celeb creatives “have announced their support for a campaign to free arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti from the Israeli prison in which he is serving consecutive life sentences for the murder of innocents,” groans Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
This foolish marketing campaign has “chosen to appropriate Nelson Mandela’s name in a transparent attempt to launder Barghouti’s legacy of evil.”
What an “insult” to Mandela, “explicitly” equating him “with an unrepentant terrorist.” Eno claims a Barghouti release “would mark a turning point in this long struggle,” however a turning level to what?
“The pro-Palestinian activist universe,” notes Mandel, insists “that Israel is the one holding up a two-state solution,” so why the “need to release Barghouti” except your aim is one thing else?
Conservative: The Hypocritical Eurovision Boycott
Why had been the nations boycotting “Eurovision over Israel’s inclusion” completely “content to take part” in May 2003, “two months after Britain invaded Iraq”? asks Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill.
“Why does Israel’s pursuit of the army of anti-Semites that attacked it so barbarously on 7 October 2023 sicken you more than Britain’s destruction of a sovereign state”?
The boycott reveals “the deep well of bigotry from which the poison of Israelophobia froths and flows,” as “the Jewish nation is judged by a different standard to every other nation on Earth.”
“Past efforts to make Europe ‘Judenfrei’ have been replaced by a new crusade to make it ‘Israelfrei’.”
The bid “to drive Israel from Eurovision” is “the latest bigoted effort to cleanse” Europe of what the bigots see as “the disease of the Jewish nation.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial board
