Jeff Jacoby
Op-Ed Columnist at The Boston Globe
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I'm an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe, a purveyor of refreshing conservative cheer in the midst of a dusty liberal wilderness.
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bostonglobe.com | Jeff Jacoby
Early in 1990, about three months after the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern Europe’s communist regimes imploded, I had the opportunity to travel through Hungary, Romania, and what was then still a unified Czechoslovakia. Many of the people I met during that trip told me what it had been like to live in a dictatorship where expressing criticism of the government could lead to persecution, imprisonment, or worse.
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bostonglobe.com | Jeff Jacoby
It was on Thursday that my wife mentioned that we have to take our car for its annual safety inspection soon; the current inspection sticker expires at the end of the month. It was also on Thursday that the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted handily to scrap mandatory yearly inspections for car- and truck owners north of the Massachusetts border. The vote, long overdue, was 212-143; the bill now goes to the Senate.
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bostonglobe.com | Jeff Jacoby
When President Trump announced last month that he had directed the US Mint to stop coining pennies, he gave only one reason for doing so. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” he posted on social media. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.” If you’ve heard that argument once, you’ve heard it a dozen times.
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bostonglobe.com | Jeff Jacoby
Once Ukraine caved, Trump was all goodwill again. He restored Kyiv’s military and intelligence support, declared that the fate of the cease-fire is “up to Russia now,” and dispatched envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio amplified the White House message. The Russians would be told that “Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking” and that the ball is now in Moscow’s court, Rubio told reporters on Tuesday.
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bostonglobe.com | Jeff Jacoby
This week, Jews worldwide will celebrate the festival of Purim. It is a joyful holiday replete with lively rituals, especially the exuberant public reading of the Book of Esther. The biblical text, set in ancient Persia during the reign of Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes), recounts an attempt to exterminate the Jews. The plan is conceived by Haman, a fanatically antisemitic vizier who persuades the emperor that his Jewish subjects are disloyal.
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It wasn't enough for Israel to be taken out of Egypt; Egypt had to be taken out of Israel. Among the most important emblems of the culture of ancient Egypt were loaves of leavened bread. Hence the emphasis every Passover on its opposite: unleavened matzah. https://t.co/zzTOCOWiZ5 https://t.co/SQMB0052oL
Don't miss Bret Stephens's beautiful column about the Trumpian repudiation of so much that has been good and noble in the American spirit. A "certain idea of America that once typified us, and for which we were once so admired, is evaporating." https://t.co/aVVqJFjaHr
Some Americans hope their children and grandchildren will become doctors, engineers, architects, and attorneys. But MAGA toadies dream that their kids will have jobs "screwing in little screws to make iPhones."
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America." https://t.co/g9TqxGxLHs
