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Dear Readers,
There will be no Kristol Clear newsletter this week. Bill reports that it will be back next week, and that it will be "better than ever (if that were possible.)"
In the meantime, be sure to watch or listen to Bill's latest Conversation with Harvey Mansfield. Jonathan Swift, according to Mansfield, is one of history's funniest men.
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to check out the trams at the airport. They’re done up in psychedelic colors. And over by the gates you can have your picture taken in a mock-up of an old VW bus...
In many quarters of the American news media today, seasoned journalists seem incapable of pondering those parts of reality that don’t complement their political worldviews. It goes beyond “bias”—we’re all biased. This is negligence.
A presidential decision on a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, long delayed and the subject of bitter dispute inside the White House, may finally be at hand. Key members of the Trump administration’s war council met with the president on...
Aug 21, 2017
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