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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Kevin Williamson
Society & Culture The difference between doing the work and destroying things. Published April 7, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. “None of us is as dumb as all of us,” as the satirical motivational poster puts it.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson
Will SCOTUS side with religious institutions? By and Published April 3, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French discuss Wisconsin’s unemployment tax case, which touches on the intersection of religious liberty and legal standards. When is an institution operating primarily for religious purposes? The Agenda:—We don’t cover internet beefs—Trump v. All—Can Catholic Charities keep its tax-exempt status? —Wisconsin Supreme Court races are vicious and cruel—Generalists vs.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Dan Mahoney |Kevin Williamson |Emily Oster
People need mobility—and freedom—to pursue happiness. Published March 21, 2025 Dear Reader (even the champions of the Evading Arrest Obstacle Course), Cold-blooded creatures, like lizards, snakes, and Martin Shkreli, can’t feel temperature. But since their energy level is determined by how warm it is outside, these ectotherms (as the kids say) start to move slower if they’re not warm enough.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome |Jonah Goldberg |Jesse Singal |Kevin Williamson
Trade has made onetime luxury items common and, yes, ‘cheap’—while raising living standards along the way. Published March 19, 2025 Imagine you woke up one day to discover that someone had invented a small, inexpensive contraption that could make anything you needed—food, clothes, appliances, whatever—with the push of a button. Would your life be better as a result? Would your current income go further? Would your job be easier?
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | David Drucker |Jonah Goldberg |Jesse Singal |Kevin Williamson
Published March 19, 2025 As Donald Trump’s second administration passed the eight-week mark (on Monday, for those keeping count at home), the firehose of news gushing out of Washington, D.C., has made it plain—in case there was any doubt—that the 45th and 47th president of the United States seems as determined as ever to dominate the federal government, specifically, and American politics generally.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Peter Gattuso |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier
Claims of genocide underscore the country’s uncertain future. Published March 16, 2025 Michael Reneau speaks with Nadine Maenza, president of the IRF Secretariat, about the complex situation in Syria following the recent overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. They discuss the religious and sectarian dynamics at play, the hopes and fears of various religious communities, and the challenges facing the country’s new leadership under President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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1 month ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Alison Somin |Adam White |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Claude S. Fischer |Daniel N. Gullotta |Nic Rowan
Justice Amy Coney Barrett and ‘loyalty.’ Published March 10, 2025 • Updated March 9, 2025 C. S. Lewis argued that every particular sinful disposition is related to “some good impulse of which it is the excess or perversion.” The appetite for justice becomes wrath, the desire to achieve material prosperity becomes avarice or envy, the normal sexual drive becomes an abnormal one, the impulse toward achievement or excellence becomes pride, the mother of sins.
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1 month ago | 
myrtlebeachonline.com | Kevin D. Williamson |Kevin Williamson
"Here I am, then. I have come home." So said Pope John Paul II after landing in Warsaw in 1983, bending to kiss the soil of his native country. The mood was patriotic and defiant. "Poland for the Poles!" came the shouts from the crowd-union men, priests, fathers and their sons.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Joseph Roche |Kevin Williamson
The Oval Office blowup gives cowardly Republicans another excuse to abandon Ukraine. Published March 3, 2025 When Voldomyr Zelensky arrived at the White House for his high-stakes meeting Friday, Donald Trump offered a sarcastic welcome. “How are you? You’re all dressed up today,” Trump said. “How are you, Mr. President?” Zelensky responded. Trump turned to the cameras. “He’s all dressed up today,” he said, with a wry smile, before leading Zelenskyy into the Oval Office.
