Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die
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His dinner with Nick Fuentes will weaken but not cripple his political ambitions
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
Tuesday
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Donald Trump, accidental Paul Revere
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No one has done more to alert us to the perils of a demagogic cult leader
Friday
Steve Bannon is off to the slammer
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As he’s sentenced for defying the January 6 Committee, all eyes now turn to Trump
Friday
What does the 6 January subpoena mean for Trump?
Poor Donald Trump. The 6 January committee has subpoenaed him. The New York attorney general is seeking to put the kibosh on his new Trump II organisation. The Supreme Court has rejected his bid to stymie the Mar-a-Lago investigation. What next? Will it turn out that Jared or even — gasp! — Ivanka has been
Tuesday
A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home
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In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Friday
Biden goes nuclear
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Alluding to ‘Armageddon,’ the president has become a warlord by proxy
Tuesday
Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?
It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close to Denmark and Sweden are the victims of sabotage. The two countries have warned of leaks from both Nord Stream 1 and 2 after seismologists suggested there had been underwater explosions. No one wants to
Monday
Giorgia Meloni is no springtime for Italian fascism
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Italy’s new populist leader is a symptom of European ills
Tuesday
Trump flails around for a lifeline
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The louder he bellows, the faster Democrats rise in the polls
Tuesday
Pelosi is right to put China on notice
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For all his bluster, Xi Jinping doesn’t want a war
Is Nancy Pelosi about to cause world war three?
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Freddy Gray speaks with Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, ahead of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. They discuss if this is a turning point in US relations with Taiwan, whether we are heading for World War Three, or if Pelosi is calling China’s bluff.
Monday
The underrated Kenny Dorham
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On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
Thursday
The January 6 committee is dismantling Trump
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His rivals wait in the wings as the evidence against him mounts
Thursday
A concert begun in darkness
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Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
Friday
What is the point of the January 6th committee?
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Freddy Gray talks to journalists Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest, and John Daniel Davidson, senior editor of The Federalist, about the beginning of public hearings at the House Select Committee into the events of January 6th 2021.
Thursday
Is Bob Woodward overrated?
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Fifty years on, the hero of Watergate has become little more than a stenographer
Thursday
It’s Midge Decter’s Republican Party now
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The late neoconservative thinker foresaw the culture wars to come
Monday
Conservatives need to forget about Hungary
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Putinism and Orbanism are toxic. It’s time to go West, posthaste
Thursday
Messenger service
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First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Wednesday
Zelensky basks in the world’s spotlight
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The Ukrainian president folds his country’s struggle for independence into the American saga
