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1 month ago | johnbatchelor.substack.com | Interview with |Brandon Weichert |John Batchelor

Columbia University's Decline and the Need for Intellectual BalanceEarlier this month, the Trump administration pulled funding from the college due to concerns over how the university handled on-campus protests against IsraelYesterday Columbia agreed to some of the conditions set out by the Trump administration“I'm not in favor of monolithic conservative universities who don't listen to anybody on the other side, and I'm certainly not in favor of this.

1 month ago | johnbatchelor.substack.com | Interview with |John Batchelor

The “Reverse Nixon” Strategy A Wall Street Journal op-ed describes the White House strategy on US-Russia relations as “Trump team’s ‘reverse Nixon’ dreams”President Nixon and Henry Kissinger strategically opened relations with China to counterbalance the Soviet Union in the 1970s“The critics of this worry that Putin will pocket the transactional offerings of Mr. Trump and still hang pretty tight with the Chinese, and the Chinese pretty tight with the Russians. That's the concern.