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View More NewsWhen the Declaration of Independence Was News, by Emily Sneff, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $29.99 The men who drafted the Declaration of Independence read the newspapers in Philadelphia, and they were influenced by the rumors being reported. When the Continental Congress voted to declare independence, the delegates knew they were making news that would be circulated throughout the world. Yet scholars haven’t described American independence narrowly and specifically as a news event—until now. In When the Declaration of Independence Was News, Emily Sneff interweaves many distinct events into a holistic account of how the news of American independence was produced,…
From today’s by Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. (S.D. Tex.) in Patel v. Figliuzzi, which stemmed from his exchange on MSNC’s Morning Joe with defendant Cesare Frank Figliuzzi, Jr., “the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI”: Host: “So, Frank, let’s turn to FBI Director Kash Patel, who has sort of taken a surprisingly backseat role—at least to this point, in the first 102 or 103 days, wherever we are right now. What do you make of that, that he’s just been a little less visible than I think a lot of people and Trump observers expected him to…
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“We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost,” says military contractor and all-around surveillance-enabler Palantir. The big data company—whose analysis…
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This week on the Quillette podcast, I’ll be interviewing the director of Speechless, which is a great new two-part documentary film about free speech that just appeared on the CBC and BBC. Yes, you heard that right. The CBC and the BBC are now airing Quillette-approved liberal takes on free speech. Crazy times, right?Speechless | Shows | CBC GemA filmmaker’s decade-long investigation into the campus culture wars that have redefined free speech and civil discourse, in the very places that were meant to protect those ideals.To make sense of what you’re about to see and hear (depending on whether you’re…
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