Walter Russell Mead
@wrmead
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Scholar @HudsonInstitute, professor @UF and columnist @WSJ. Latest book The Arc of a Covenant available for purchase using the link below.
Washington, DC
Joined November 2009
Glad to interact with a US delegation of thinkers and business leaders led by Mr. Walter Russell Mead. Value their contribution in strengthening India-US ties and advancing our partnership for global peace, progress and prosperity. @wrmead
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Trump’s ambition to rank as a great statesman has become clearer in his second term. To achieve his ambitions, however, he will have to do more than make headlines. He will have to make progress, writes @wrmead
https://t.co/Ha5SZXMeQY
wsj.com
His diplomatic moves on Ukraine and Gaza were both dazzling and unconventional.
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Western leaders who insist that Israel’s actions are historically unprecedented and morally unjustifiable betray an ignorance of history and unseriousness of purpose, writes @wrmead
https://t.co/DPAlIEYaYw
wsj.com
European complaints about Israel ignore the Continent’s own bloody past.
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A proud and happy day for the whole Gator Nation. Wishing the happiest of New Years to all who observe.
On Monday evening, September 22, the Chabad UF Jewish Student & Community Center will host the largest Rosh Hashanah service and dinner in North America at the University of Florida’s O’Connell Center – Exactech Arena
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On the latest episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, @wrmead explains how Donald Trump has "destabilized a tottering world system." https://t.co/cHwj2iCHot
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It's a long time until the next General Election, but with Labour on track to lose 353 seats and the Conservatives reduced to a Parliamentary fringe with 19 seats, this poll forecasts the biggest revolution in British politics since Charles I lost his head.
Translates to a Reform majority of 166 and the Lib Dems as the opposition.
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If so, that’s only because I know how ignorant I am about this ancient and complex civilization! Looking forward to learning more on my next visit later this year.
Not as if US think thanks have any expertise on India. The only American with any knowledge of India is @wrmead
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Lots of conspiracy theories about the Jews and Israel are floating around these days. If you want to understand what's really going on, check out my book The Arc of a Covenant, now 50% off on audiobook. https://t.co/cnvwM7CNOa
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In this bold examination of the Israeli–American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that...
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Challenged at home, beset abroad, Western leaders aren't waving. They're drowning. The global slide toward disorder accelerated last week, and until Western public opinion and the political class finally wakes up, things will only get worse.
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Most Western leaders are flailing while foreign foes capitalize on their opportunity.
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Fact check: True.
Agreed. Two things that help keep me more or less sane in this insane world are great literature (yes, all of Dickens, and then Scott, Stendhal, Fontane, Tolstoy ...) and great music (Bruckner, Mahler, Schubert, Tchaikovsky ...). Culturally I am a refugee from the 19th century.
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53rd state, right after Canada and Greenland?
Trump is about to come to the UK for an unprecedented second state visit, and J.D. Vance has only just returned home from his junket. Why is MAGA so obsessed with the UK?
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The church in America now as ever needs to be a shelter from the storm, a temple of grace, an instrument of charity, an agent of redemption, a foreshadowing of the eternal city. -@markdtooley
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We can be sure that Putin has several teams at work preparing for him options to escalate in his undeclared war against the west. The next step is probably under preparation right now. And again the west will be shocked and surprised.
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The storm in U.S.-India relations calmed over the weekend, but to keep this vital relationship on track, both sides need to dig deeper and work harder.
wsj.com
The summer spat has eased, but Trump’s tariffs still stir anti-American sentiments.
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Scoop!!
Sudan's Crisis in the Shadows. Another American magazine has discovered this unheard of war in Sudan and parachutes a photographer in for "almost 2 weeks" where he "hitched rides on UN plans and trudged along mud tracks" to reach "Africa's beating heart."
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Like two rugby teams performing Hakas before the big game, Team Trump and Team Xi are preparing for the contest that will define their legacies… and maybe reshape the world.
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While Xi flexes at his Tianjin summit, the U.S. president aims to prevail on trade.
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The Hamilton School at the University of Florida is hiring again this year. We have 7 faculty lines: 4 in PPEL, 3 in the humanities more broadly. Please share widely as we continue to build our PPEL program, which in its first year has over 100 majors. Links below.
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There’s a lot more beauty and wisdom in old books than most people ever see. Do yourself a favor and dive in.
One of the great triumphs of literary, artistic, and archaeological research in the 20th century was the discovery of the "numbers" in medieval and Renaissance poetry, art, and architecture. For the verse from Wisdom, that God made the world "in measure, weight, and number,"
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