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Evening News Digest: May 9, 2022 The Week

Harold  Maass Is now the time to reform the Supreme Court? Peter  Weber Last civilians from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel mill reach safety Peter  Weber Putin defends Ukraine invasion at ‘low key’ Victory Day parade Sponsored content from SmartAsset 7 Secrets Smart Professionals Use to Choose Financial Advisors Catherine  […]

Daily News Digest: May 9, 2022 The Week

Peter  Weber The Trump lawsuits: ‘Witch hunt’ or a modicum of justice? Brigid  Kennedy Where do politicians stand on Roe v. Wade and the SCOTUS leak? The Week  Staff Prosecuting war crimes Advertisement from Wisebread Insanely High Paying Cash Back Cards With No Annual Fee Grayson  Quay Taliban […]

The End of Roe?

Commentaries from the New York Review of Books Last week a leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization gave a preview of the Supreme Court’s likely decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. This is the first part in a series of short responses to the ruling. Liza Batkin Deceit in […]

Rising: May 9, 2022 Full Show

Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss whether NATO is acting too hawkishly when engaging with nuclear-armed Russia. Robby Soave criticizes a New York Times profile of Elon Musk as a botched smear job. Rising Friday’s co-host Emily Jashinsky, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate what qualifies as a […]

Orwell and Dalrymple on English Class

By Laurie Wastel Quillette Ever since Marx, the concept of class has been foundational to sociology—as well as to almost everything else. This would not have surprised the German economist, for class, as he saw it, determines all: one’s motivations, one’s social position, even one’s consciousness. Britain, where […]

How ‘The Future’ Died in Sweden

By Malcom Kyeyune Compact Rioting swept Sweden this Easter. Rasmus Paludan, a Danish far-right politician, had announced his intention to publicly burn the Quran in several Swedish cities. He successfully burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in the city of Jönköping, and intended to move on […]

The Undead Consensus

By Sohrab Ahmari, Compact Tuesday’s Manhattan Institute gala in New York City was a show of force from the establishment right. The assembled executives, foreign-policy hawks, and pro-business editorialists celebrated two of their own, Citadel Capital chief Ken Griffin and Wall Street Journal opinion editor Paul Gigot. The […]