A New Breed of Political Ad Enters the Midterms
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Data manipulation in The Spirit Level
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American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
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The Maginot Line: Actually a Good Idea
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3 People Who Probably Saved Your Life
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Book Review: American Dunkirk
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Greetings and salutations, Instapundit readers! Thanks for stopping by.
Kendra, James and Tricia Wachtendorf. American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016)
Did you know that between 300,000 and 500,000 people left Lower Manhattan Island by boat on September 11, 2001? The boat-lift was spontaneous, self-organized for the most part, and has been relatively unsung. The Coast Guard eventually acted as sort-of-coordinator, but had little or nothing to do with the efforts at first.
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How The Toilet Changed History
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Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
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What We Still Don’t Know About Stockholm Syndrome
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Crime waves through history
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The Darwin awards gender gap
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If Lara Alqasem led a radical-right group, instead of radical-left SJP, would the media have covered her detention?
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It’s possible to keep the following two statements in our heads at the same time about Israel’s decision to deny entry to 22-year-old American BDS activist Lara Alqasem, who was to participate in the Hebrew University program:
- Despite her past involvement in the extremist group SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine), Alqasaem doesn’t currently pose anything resembling a real threat to Israel, and authorities were wrong – both from a policy and public relations standpoint – to detain her.
- If Lara Alqasaem had been in a leadership position with a right-wing extremist group, instead of a pro-Palestinian extremist group, the media wouldn’t have batted an eye, and Alqasaem wouldn’t represent a political cause among ‘human rights’ activists.
Before proceeding with the second statement, what we believe the most compelling and unobserved element of the story, it should be noted that critics of the detention of Alqasem make a valid…
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