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Foreign desk: If It’s Not a US War, Who Cares?
President Trump “calls himself the ‘president of peace’ and says he has ‘ended eight wars,’ ” notes the Washinton Examiner’s Byron York. Trouble is, “hardly anyone cares.”
Absent “a shooting war involving the United States going on,” Americans don’t think much about foreign policy.
In an October Gallup poll, just 1% cited it as a top concern. Trump says he’s ended wars between: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Hamas.
“Did you know about all of these conflicts? Maybe not.” Sure, if he could “settle a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia, fine.”
But “Trump was elected to do something about the economy.”
Educator: Making Liberal Arts Matter
“The liberal arts promise to cultivate wisdom, but wisdom alone no longer pays the rent,” sighs Samuel J. Abrams at Real Clear Education.
Kevin Carey’s New York Times essay on small colleges closing is “both elegy and warning,” Carey “misses a deeper truth” behind the crisis: “Colleges have stopped proving why knowledge matters to the civic life of a free people.”
With AI “rewriting the rules of knowledge work” and students needing the tools to question those systems, “the mission of liberal arts colleges must adapt.” Liberal arts students need an “education that integrates reflection with practice.”
In place of the “collapsing” ivory tower, campuses must be “a bridge between contemplation and action, tradition and innovation, mind and world.”
From the right: Guardrails Needed
The “astonishing fraud unfolding in Minnesota” proves GOP reformers were right to call out such abuse in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, argues The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.
“ ‘No one was doing anything about the red flags,’ one defendant’s attorney told The New York Times. ‘It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it.’ ”
More, flags the board: When officials flagged suspect filings, scammers “cried racial discrimination and the money kept flowing.”
President Trump emphasized the role of ethnic Somalis, “but the main problem” isn’t “ethnicity or migration.
It’s the incentives for indolence and fraud at the heart of the welfare state. All that free money with few guardrails is an invitation to theft.”
Culture critic: Celebs’ Lame Anti-Israel Bias
Sting, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood and other celeb creatives “have announced their support for a campaign to free arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti from the Israeli prison in which he is serving consecutive life sentences for the murder of innocents,” groans Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
This silly campaign has “chosen to appropriate Nelson Mandela’s name in a transparent attempt to launder Barghouti’s legacy of evil.”
What an “insult” to Mandela, “explicitly” equating him “with an unrepentant terrorist.” Eno claims a Barghouti release “would mark a turning point in this long struggle,” but a turning point to what?
“The pro-Palestinian activist universe,” notes Mandel, insists “that Israel is the one holding up a two-state solution,” so why the “need to release Barghouti” unless your goal is something else?
Conservative: The Hypocritical Eurovision Boycott
Why were the nations boycotting “Eurovision over Israel’s inclusion” perfectly “content to take part” in May 2003, “two months after Britain invaded Iraq”? asks Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill.
“Why does Israel’s pursuit of the army of anti-Semites that attacked it so barbarously on 7 October 2023 sicken you more than Britain’s destruction of a sovereign state”?
The boycott reveals “the deep well of bigotry from which the poison of Israelophobia froths and flows,” as “the Jewish nation is judged by a different standard to every other nation on Earth.”
“Past efforts to make Europe ‘Judenfrei’ have been replaced by a new crusade to make it ‘Israelfrei’.”
The bid “to drive Israel from Eurovision” is “the latest bigoted effort to cleanse” Europe of what the bigots see as “the disease of the Jewish nation.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial board