Max Boot

5 days ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Jane Lytvynenko |Nataliya Vasilyeva |Max Boot |Tracy Qu

Quotes of the Day:“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”– Robert A. Heinlein - Logic of Empire"And so, to those tempted by despair, I say: Remind yourself that the world is what we make it, and that to the making of it each one of us can contribute something. This thought makes hope possible: and in this hope, though life will still be painful, it will be no longer purposeless."~Bertrand Russell“Water does not resist. Water flows.

2 months ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Liza Lin |Tarini Parti |Daniel Michaels |Max Boot

Quotes of the Day:"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequences what we do."– John Ruskin"All cruelty springs from weakness."– Seneca1. The Swedish handbook: “In Case of Crisis or War” (Official Resistance & Resilience Brochure for Citizens)2. Actions create consequences: contempt – the clearer term for entitlement by Cynthia Watson3.

Jan 16, 2025 | independent.ie | Max Boot

President Jimmy Carter spent his last hours in office on January 20, 1981, negotiating the release of 52 American hostages held in Iran, but they did not head home until shortly after Ronald Reagan had been inaugurated. In similar fashion, Joe Biden and his aides have spent their last days in office negotiating the release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip – and most of those hostages will not come home until after Biden has left the White House.

Jan 15, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | Max Boot |Jackson Lears

Afew days​ after Ronald Reagan died in 2004, I was hurrying through Newark airport when I spied his smiling countenance on the cover of the Economist, accompanied by a caption in big block letters: THE MAN WHO BEAT COMMUNISM. This preposterous tribute succinctly summarised the conventional wisdom regarding the end of the Cold War. The Good Guys had won, led by the genial but implacable Cold Warrior.

Nov 22, 2024 | adn.com | Max Boot

Why does President-elect Donald Trump intend to nominate as his defense secretary Pete Hegseth, a 44-year-old Fox News host and former major in the Army National Guard who has no experience running a vast organization like the Defense Department and who is now embroiled in a sexual assault scandal?