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20 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "Trump Will Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries," published by David J. Bier on the Cato Institute, the author argues that Donald Trump's immigration policies in a potential second term would disproportionately target legal immigratio...
17 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In "Biden Didn't Cause the Border Crisis," published by American Purpose, David J. Bier dismantles the narrative that President Joe Biden is responsible for the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. Bier argues that the surge in migration stems from global...
16 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In the article "Serbia is Playing Both Sides," published by American Purpose, Nikola Mikovic examines how Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić skillfully balances Serbia's relationships with the West and Russia to maintain political power. Vučić s...
15 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In the article "The Patrimonial Style in American Politics Could Spread Under Trump," published by The New Republic, Alan Elrod warns that former President Donald Trump's leadership embodies a patrimonial governance style, prioritizing personal...
6 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR James Bloodworth's article, "Saving the West, One Polemic at a Time," critically examines Douglas Murray, a prominent right-wing intellectual and author. Bloodworth highlights Murray's rise to fame, controversial rhetoric, and framing of Western...
28 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Previously, I wrote about 自由人. When you understand that 自由 equates to freedom, you will be able to access the beauty of this high-frequency, high-utility idiom: 自由自在. I spotted this idiom pretty often during my stay in Japan. This was seen...
24 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”Ai Weiwei What are the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" of the arts? When artists play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," what tools do they use? Beauty? Sorrow? Subterfuge? Denial? No...
17 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Anne Fadiman discussed “the paradoxically liberating power of restriction”, but I never understood what she meant. This year, I returned to my wife’s hometown in Kumamoto with two young kids in tow. Just a few years ago, I would have felt quite res...
13 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Yezid Sayigh's "Anatomy of a Military Fall" from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Annie Slemrod's "Syria Faces Huge Humanitarian Challenges as It Begins Post-Assad Era" from The New Humanitarian examine the fall of Bashar al-A...
11 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR A report by The New Humanitarian titled "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" examines the severe impact of Israeli military actions on humanitarian operations in Gaza. The investigation highl...
