Karp's Quest to Save the Shire

"You're killing my family in Palestine!" a protester screamed at Palantir CEO Alex Karp while he was addressing a Silicon Valley conference last April. "The primary source of death in Palestine," Karp, the Jewish, half-black, progressive, tai chi practitioner shot back, without missing a beat, "is the fact that Hamas has realized there are millions and millions of useful idiots."

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Putting Atheism on the Defensive

Academic pariah he may be, but on the big questions Charles Murray is a man of his time. Science, he believed for most of his life, had demolished the traditional notion of God. Consciousness is produced by the brain, nothing more. The Gospels are less history than folklore.

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Giving History the Human Touch

America owes all her triumphs to the humans who crawled across battlefields, toiled in factories, blasted through mountains, sermonized on soapboxes, and experimented in labs. American history—world history—is human history more than anything. The late David McCullough understood this as well as anyone, and in the posthumous collection of his essays and speeches, History Matters, this basic idea is a consistent throughline.

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Cold War Interlude

Is there a more purely entertaining British novelist writing today than William Boyd? I doubt it, and I would even go a step further than that. Since his crowning achievement with 2002’s whole-life novel Any Human Heart, Boyd has pivoted from the witty, Evelyn Waugh-ish literary books with which he began his career to a series of period-set spy novels that focus on what it’s like to be an innocent caught up in events beyond their comprehension. From 2006’s mega-bestseller Restless to 2012’s Waiting for Sunrise, Boyd has consistently proved himself the purveyor of high-class, page-turning espionage fiction. Warmer and funnier than le Carré, less jaded than Mick Herron, his novels are page-turners par excellence.

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Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D., Maine) said Google and Palantir "wouldn’t exist" if he had his way.

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‘Don’t Let Them Have a Public Dinner Without Getting Yelled At’: Maine’s Platner Calls for Harassment of Lawmakers Who Oppose Medicare for All

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D., Maine) urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.

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Maine’s Platner Calls To Abolish ICE, Drag Agents Before Congress: ‘People Need to Go to Prison’

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D., Maine) called to abolish ICE and force agents to testify before Congress—his most aggressive comments on the agency to date.

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Trump Admin Revokes Visa From South African Official Who Spearheaded 'Genocide' Case Against Israel

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked the visa of Naledi Pandor, the South African official who spearheaded a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, spoke by phone with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, and repeatedly offered support for terrorism, a senior State Department official exclusively confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

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What Do Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mohamed Atta, and Adolf Hitler Have in Common? They're Democratic Donors.

Jasmine Crockett, the sassy and toxically self-absorbed Democratic congresswoman from Texas, attempted to shame Republican lawmakers who have taken money from people named Jeffrey Epstein. None of the donations she mentioned came from the jet-setting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein; they were individuals who shared his name. Guess what, fam? We're CLAPPING BACK at Crockett with our own 20-minute Google sesh. We used the internet to uncover some DEVASTATING truths about Democrats and the evil scumbags who finance their radical anti-American agenda. We didn't have time to check for accuracy, but we're pretty sure it's legit. We seek to inform, not to mislead. That's why we brought RECEIPTS, bitch.

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The Real Story Behind the Trump Administration’s Alleged Insult to Black Soldiers at a World War II Cemetery in the Netherlands

When a U.S. monuments commission removed a plaque invoking the history of segregation at a Netherlands cemetery for fallen American World War II soldiers, mainstream media outlets characterized the move as an attempt to minimize the contributions of black servicemen. CNN reported that a "display about Black soldiers in World War II" had been removed from the U.S. military cemetery, known as Margraten.

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