Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“It may not be much yet, but rumors of the death of actual conservatism are overblown.” (02/28/25)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-other-resistance-from-the-right-812
Source: New York Post
“The ruins of the doomed superyacht Bayesian that sunk off the Sicilian coast will be raised from the sea bed — as officials search for more clues about the tragic wreck. Italian authorities will begin hoisting the sunken ship’s skeleton to the surface this April. The salvage operation should take three weeks to complete. The $37 million Bayesian, which sank on August 1, 2024, is currently lying at a depth of 165 feet, about half a mile off the coast of Porticello. Seven people aboard the scuttled Bayesian — including British billionaire Mike Lynch and his daughter, Hannah — died.” (03/01/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/world-news/doomed-bayesian-yacht-to-be-lifted-from-ocean-floor/
Source: (Re)Imagining Liberty
“Markets are Good for More than Wealth (w/ Tom Palmer).” (03/01/25)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ashley Gate
“This Sunday millions will tune in to watch Hollywood’s premier awards ceremony, the Oscars. All eyes will be on the red carpet to see who is wearing what and viewers will be anxiously waiting to see if any drama unfolds — like a Will Smith slap or accidentally awarding the Best Picture Oscar to the wrong film. What won’t be mentioned is the fact that many of the movies vying for Oscar wins wouldn’t have made it to the big screen without help from the U.S. military.” (02/28/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/oscars-military-hollywood/
Source: Townhall
by Derek Hunter
“Let’s be honest; it is impossible to be friendly with the radical left. I’m not talking about the run-of-the-mill Democrats who vote that way because their grandparents and parents were Democrats; I’m talking about the hate-America left [sic] – the mutants burning American flags, throwing bricks at cops, and taking over college campuses calling for the extermination of Jews every time Israel retaliates after an attack from terrorist scum. You can’t be friendly with them as they are the enemy of everything good humans have created over the centuries. Harsh, I know, but I didn’t bring us to this point, I’m simply noticing.” (03/02/25)
Source: New York Times
“The Finnish authorities said on Sunday that they had released an oil tanker seized in December over suspicions that it had deliberately cut vital undersea cables but that a criminal investigation into the episode would continue. The authorities said last year that the ship, the Eagle S, appeared to belong to Russia’s shadow fleet — older tankers that covertly transport Russian crude oil around the world — escalating concerns about a covert campaign to sabotage European infrastructure. On Sunday, the Finnish police said that since the criminal inquiry ‘has progressed,’ the aging tanker was free to leave and that border officials had escorted the ship out of the country’s territorial waters.” (03/02/25)
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“For the third week in a row, Pope Francis has been unable to deliver his traditional Angelus prayer in person, with the Vatican publishing his written comments instead. The Vatican said the text, sent from his hospital room in Rome, had been written ‘in the past few days.’ In it, the Pope thanked people for their prayers and thanked his medical team for their care. … On Sundays, visitors to the Vatican usually gather on St Peter’s Square to see the Pope appear at a window high up in the Apostolic Palace in the official Papal apartment. However, Francis does not live there, opting for the simpler setting of the Vatican’s Santa Marta guest house.” (03/02/25)
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Wrestling with Ross Douthat’s book, Believe.” (02/28/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/is-it-better-to-believe-in-anything
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by the editorial board
“In the past decade, terrorist attacks in the Middle East have dropped sharply, often because of military defeat, sometimes by a change in conscience. A possible example of the latter came Thursday. In a letter from his prison cell of 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan, founder of a four-decade-old armed insurgency for the rights of the large Kurdish minority in Turkey, called on his outlawed group to disarm and dissolve.” (02/28/25)
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Sunday in a show of force, days after North Korea test-launched cruise missiles to demonstrate its counter-attack capabilities. … The deployment of the carrier is expected to infuriate North Korea, which views temporary deployments of such powerful US military assets as major security threats. North Korea has responded to some of the past deployments of US aircraft carriers, long-range bombers and nuclear-powered submarines with missile tests.” (03/02/25)