An expert on international law and the Arab-Israel conflict, Kontorovich is the 19th former Heritage staffer to leave the think tank for AAF since Kevin Roberts’s videoed defense of Tucker Carlson L: Eugene Kontorovich (law.gmu.edu) R: Advancing American Freedom logo (advancingamericanfreedom.com) Former Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Eugene Kontorovich has joined Advancing American Freedom (AAF),
The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen of Southern California, contributed to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. On social media, he also slammed the First Amendment pocket square journalists were donning at last night’s dinner. An image of the suspect that President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social platform. The suspected White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter,
In his 1994 survey of Lincoln in American Memory, Merrill D. Peterson identified five themes which have summed-up the meaning of Abraham Lincoln for Americans since Lincoln’s death in 1865. Those five themes hold little surprise—Lincoln as Savior of the Union, Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Lincoln as the Man of the People, Lincoln as
It’s hard to write a good oral history. The stop-start nature of the form makes it difficult to develop a narrative, and also the sometimes-uneven rhythm impedes the author’s ability to develop a larger message. Studs Terkel’s Hard Times is usually considered one of the best of the genre. It succeeded because the book used
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For wayward souls craving a dose of old-school, real-deal country music, there’s an obscure but surefire remedy, a 1973 low-budget cult movie called Payday. It stars wild-man actor Rip Torn in a career performance as Maury Dann, a pill-popping, pistol-toting, whiskey-swigging country singer with scimitar sideburns and a bad attitude working his way down the
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