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He wrote for money. He spied for free. Dominic Green on the late Frederick Forsyth, the thriller writer who lived the plot @CompactMag_ compactmag.com/article/freder…

"Eventually, we’ll be like those reliant on Google Maps, who can’t get anywhere without a phone telling us where to turn." compactmag.com/article/welcom…

"If they weren’t so enjoyable, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'The Odessa File' & 'The Dogs of War' would be recognized as key novels of the Cold War and decolonization." On Frederick Forsyth COMPACT for Matthew Schmitz compactmag.com/article/freder…

"Brian Wilson was one of those rare composers whose work only got better and deeper as he matured." With the news of Beach Boys creator Brian Wilson's passing, we're reminded of Michael Anton's Paradise Lost and Regained: The Beach Boys' Smile is an American masterpiece.

Smart hire.

Note from a friend: “In mourning Wilson we mourn all our lost youths.” youtube.com/watch?v=S3E0TS…

The Wilsons and the Gioias—that’s two remarkable families within a few hundred yards of each other. x.com/tedgioia/statu…

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Quiet Radicalism compactmag.com/article/marie-…

Maria Gluesenkamp Perez offers a path forward for Democrats—but neither technocratic centrists nor progressive activists are eager to take it. compactmag.com/article/marie-…

Many opponents of US involvement in Mideast wars share a false premise with interventionists, Daniel McCarthy argues. They believe the US really can, and should, control events in the region—though they want it to restrain rather than aid Israel. compactmag.com/article/this-i…

“America does not and should not have a veto on other nations’ foreign policy, though there are occasions when our own interests demand that we exert influence over others. In this case, our interest lies in staying out” From Daniel McCarthy compactmag.com/article/this-i…

"The MOOC ideology was the Californian Ideology in a nutshell: vague egalitarian rhetoric combined with unquestioned certitude that the profit motive was the primary vehicle of moral progress." Read Geoff Shullenberger's latest newsletter substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

America is not Israel’s keeper, or Iran’s. The assumption too meany antiwar conservatives share with neocons is that we have to police the Israel-Iran relationship. We can’t actually do that—the enemies have to settle their own conflict. And Israel has the upper hand.

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My COMPACT essay on why the U.S. shouldn’t participate in a war against Iran that Israel is quite capable of winning on its own.

Ross Douthat explains why Kathy Hochul must veto the NY assisted suicide bill

There is a playbook. This has happened before. It’s called paying American citizens more money.

“Books like Comitta’s are not anyone’s choice of reading, however high or low their tastes may be.” compactmag.com/article/the-no…