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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Tonguette) - As My Mother Lay Dying

Watching movies with loved ones can be its own kind of communication. The post As My Mother Lay Dying appeared first on The American Conservative .

Culture As My Mother Lay Dying Watching movies with loved ones can be its own kind of communication. As my mother lay dying in the hospital, her eyes tired and her breathing labored, she told me that she had loved watching movies with my brother and me.  She said, in the days before her death from cancer at 79 in September 2023, other things to me, too, but not as many as one might expect. She was the most loving of mothers, but she sometimes struggled to express her feelings plainly. To do so at the 11th hour would not only have represented a reversal of a lifetime of her habits but, for her, a grim confirmation of what we both then…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Ticks and Birds

In the dualist struggle between beauty and ugliness, ugliness seems to be getting the better of it. The post Ticks and Birds appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag Ticks and Birds In the dualist struggle between beauty and ugliness, ugliness seems to be getting the better of it. TakiMag You don’t have to be a full-blown Zoroastrian or Manichaean to notice that good and bad are in constant conflict in this world. In like fashion, so are beauty and ugliness. In neither case is a full and final victory to be expected in the conflict.  As far as evil is concerned, there is a distinction to be made between the natural variety and the man-made kind. No doubt the distinction is not absolutely categorical, insofar as, with proper provision, mankind can protect itself (to some degree)…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Benjamin H. Friedman, Justin Logan) - Threatening NATO Over Iran Is Stupid, but Potentially Useful

American erraticism should encourage the Europeans to pick up responsibility for their own security. The post Threatening NATO Over Iran Is Stupid, but Potentially Useful appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Threatening NATO Over Iran Is Stupid, but Potentially Useful American erraticism should encourage the Europeans to pick up responsibility for their own security. The U.S. war in Iran may be over, or at least in abeyance, but President Donald Trump isn’t done blaming Europeans for his failure there. A week after threatening to quit NATO over European states’ reluctance to help out, especially in clearing the Strait of Hormuz, and just two days after striking a shaky ceasefire deal, the president was at it again Thursday, berating the strategically obsequious Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, for the…Open