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2 weeks ago | 
faithfulreads.com | John MacArthur
The Last Disciple: Crisis in Jerusalemby Kurt BrouwerLIMITED TIME FREE #adKINDLE APPLE NOOK KOBOHe was the Beloved Disciple… …and he would be the last. The mantle to tell the whole story has fallen on him. From the Cross, Jesus entrusted John, son of Zebedee, the youngest disciple, with the welfare of Mary, Jesus’s mother. Over thirty years later, as Jerusalem becomes a cauldron of explosive tempers, John receives a calling he doesn’t want. Will he listen and follow?
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2 weeks ago | 
ledevoir.com | John MacArthur
J’évite toujours les analogies galvaudées et simplistes avec la conférence de Munich 1938 et « l’apaisement » supposément fatal de la Grande-Bretagne à l’endroit d’Adolf Hitler. Pas seulement parce que les scénarios contemporains sont si différents (Vladimir Poutine ne peut être comparé au fondateur du nazisme et l’Ukraine n’est pas la Tchécoslovaquie). Il y a également le fait que la stratégie de Neville Chamberlain dans ses pourparlers avec le dictateur allemand divise encore les historiens.
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1 month ago | 
harpers.org | John MacArthur
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took Donald Trump seriously when Trump said he wanted to turn Canada into the 51st state.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |John MacArthur |Matt Purple |Frank Ricci
Since the US Department of Education’s inception in 1980, the agency has proven itself to be incompetent at its principal task: teaching American children. Adding insult to injury, the agency has also earned a big, fat F when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Despite this reality, headlines announcing the Trump administration’s newly streamlined Department of Education cast a somber tone. Layoffs “gutted” the Education Department, reports the AP.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Charles Lipson |John MacArthur |Christopher Caldwell
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America,” President Donald Trump told Greenlanders from a joint session of Congress earlier this month. And determine their future they did, as Greenland voted in a parliamentary election Tuesday. The results might not be as bad for Trump as NBC’s headlines imply. That’s the takeaway of Tom Dans, a man Greenlandic media calls Trump’s sande mand — true man — in the island-nation.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |John MacArthur |Christopher Caldwell |Ben Domenech
I have to begin this column with a glass of Pol Roger cuvée Winston Churchill. It’s fancy stuff, and — according to some — it’s a bit early in the day to be quaffing Champagne. “How early is too early?” I’ve often wondered that. The jury is out but most of the best authorities say that any time before actually awakening is too early. Why the shampoo (as David Niven was wont to denominate the beverage)?
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Benedict Kiely |Charles Lipson |John MacArthur |Christopher Caldwell
David Lammy, the UK Foreign Secretary, and Marco Rubio had rather tellingly different responses to the latest wave of violence in Syria. Lammy deplored the “horrific violence” but failed to address where that violence was coming from. Rubio, by contrast, stated clearly that “radical Islamist terrorists” were targeting minorities in Syria, including Alawites, Christians and Druze. Rubio is right.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |John MacArthur |Matt Purple |Frank Ricci
Since the US Department of Education’s (DoEd) inception in 1980, the agency has proven itself to be incompetent at its principal task: teaching American children. Adding insult to injury, the agency has also earned a big, fat F when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Despite this reality, headlines announcing the Trump administration’s newly streamlined Department of Education cast a somber tone. Layoffs “gutted” the Education Department, reports the AP.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |John MacArthur |Christopher Caldwell |Ben Domenech
At a summit meeting in Moscow, Ronald Reagan was asked about his basic approach. He famously answered, “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”Vladimir Putin has the same strategy for Ukraine. That is certainly his first response to President Trump’s offer to mediate an end to the war and bring a reluctant Ukraine to the negotiating table. If “we win, they lose” is Putin’s final response, then the war cannot end without Ukraine’s surrender or Russia’s collapse.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Peter Watson |Charles Lipson |John MacArthur |Christopher Caldwell
With President Trump spending so much time away from Washington at his home and club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, there are good spin-offs and not-so-good spin-offs for Palm Beachers. One of the good ones is for the local hotels: his security guard is of such a size that they are being billeted all over town. Less good is the sheer cost of security.
