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In his recent interview with ABC News, President Donald J. Trump—now in the early days of his historic second term—presented the American people with what can be described as both a retrospective defense of his past policies and a bold, unflinching blueprint for national renewal. There was no
Canada
Today, Canadians head to the polls in what many are calling the most consequential election in a generation — a decision that will not only determine the country’s economic direction but also its political identity amid growing global uncertainty. After nearly a decade of Liberal rule, Canada finds itself at
Economy
The Strategic Pivot: Trump’s Tariff Policy and the First Break with China The Trump administration’s 2017 decision to impose sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports was far more than a headline-grabbing trade war—it marked the first serious challenge to the United States’ decades-long economic entanglement with China. For
Academia
A professor and Chair of the Brass Department at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. — a school often compared to The Juilliard School in NYC — is facing its own antisemitic cause célèbre at the behest of upset parents. Nicholas Payton, a Grammy Award-winning musician took up a
Academia
Shalom Chaverim! The term “Orientalism” is mostly associated with the infamous Columbia professor Edward Said, and became a bedrock of collegiate international relations curriculum. What many might not know is that prior to Said loading the term, Oriental Studies was a rather innocuous pursuit, no different than that of any
Academia
What this post won’t do: Explore what the right or legal approach should be for hate speech, harassment, or immigration laws. What it will do: Present findings from controlled experiments into how public standards for punishment shift depending on the identity of the perceived victims and aggressors. It started
Colleges
*Editor's note: This article was originally published to Substack on April 17th. It is an opinion piece, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Liberty Affair. Late this morning I was composing an entirely different newsletter, but now I am composing this one. A newsletter in which
Celebrity
Every Tuesday, I do what millions of others do: I watch Kill Tony on YouTube (Note for clarification: It releases Monday night each week, but I live in Europe). I watch Tony Hinchcliffe, Brian Redban, a rotating cast of world-class comedians, and an open mic lineup of chaotic hopefuls wage
Economy
The economic tremors shaking Wall Street today are not caused by tariffs, culture wars, or even political gridlock. They are the product of five decades of financialization—a dangerous decoupling of capital markets from the real economy. The current freefall in equity prices, especially across the Nasdaq and Dow Jones,
Academia
A curriculum writer who works at a lesson-planning agency for middle school teachers has published a paper arguing that math classes “perpetuate whiteness," sparking concern among parents who want to keep ‘wokeism’ and DEI out of the classroom. Michael Lolkus— who holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University — made
Antisemitism
Shalom Chaverim - Someone must have invented a time machine because I feel like I’m back in 2017. That’s the only way to describe what it was like when, earlier this week, Elon Musk created an early Rorschach Test less than 24 hours into Trump’s second term.
Crime
In a terrifying escalation of political intimidation, conservative voices are increasingly becoming the targets of a criminal tactic known as swatting—a dangerous and potentially deadly act where someone falsely reports a violent emergency to dispatch armed police to an unsuspecting victim’s home. This isn’t a prank. This