The Post-Partisan Emporium

  All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump? Thoughts on women and rage Janice Fiamengo Feminist uproar over Trump’s election was easy to predict, and not long in coming. Within ten days of the election, Clara Jeffery wrote in  Mother Jones  that “ Women are furious—in a Greek mythology sort of way .” Taking examples from TikTok, Jeffery chronicled abundant “sorrow and disbelief and terror, but also incandescent rage,” which many women vowed to exorcise on men: “‘ If his ballot was red, his balls stay blue ,’” she quoted one. In  The New York Times , a 16-year-old girl, Naomi Beinart, charted her tumultuous emotions, which included a sense of betrayal because her male classmates had carried on with their lives on the day after the election, seemingly immune to the girls’ all-pervasive gloom and outrage. “ Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair . We don’t even share the same future,” Beinart opined melodramatically. No one with even a minimal a...

  American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality  Ron Unz   Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America’s most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his areas of special expertise. During subsequent decades, Freeman served as our ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War and was afterward appointed as an assistant secretary of defense. Then in early 2009, the Obama Administration nominated him as chairman of our National Intelligence Council, responsible for assessing and aggregating the findings of our 17 different intelligence agencies, and then providing the final report to our president and other top leaders. But the Israel Lobby regarded Freeman as insufficiently loyal to the foreign na...