You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.These are dark times for democracy. Seventy-three countries witnessed an erosion of freedom in 2020, the highest in 15 years. In 2021, tyranny…Continue Reading
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The economy has collapsed. Crime is rising. Protests are paralyzing the country.Amid the chaos, a student, her two siblings and their single mother wrestle with an agonizing choice: Whether to stay in the only country they’ve ever called home or try to start a new life elsewhere.It’s a dilemma confronting many Haitians…Continue Reading
WARSAW, Poland — As 83-year-old Hanna Zientara endured subfreezing temperatures to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in Warsaw, her 30-year-old grandson was starting a Canary Islands vacation while unvaccinated and stubbornly refusing his grandmother’s repeated pleas to protect himself.“I am worried about him, but I have no influence over him. None,” Zientara said. “He…Continue Reading
JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic militant who eluded capture for 16 years to life in prison on Wednesday after finding him guilty of making bombs used in a 2005 market attack that killed 22 people.Upik Lawanga, known as “professor,” is a key member of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network, which the…Continue Reading
CAIRO — Fighting between troops loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels displaced over 25,000 people around a key port city last month, the United Nations said late Tuesday.The fighting in Hodeida flared up when rebels rushed in to areas abandoned by government forces, followed by a counterstrike by pro-government troops backed…Continue Reading
Michael Shellenberger’s new book appropriately diagnoses the drug problem on the West Coast, but there are better solutions. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, by Michael Shellenberger (Harper, 2021), 416 pages.Michael’s Shellenberger’s San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities is both the most captivating and the most depressing book of 2021, a year ripe for depressing books.…Continue Reading
The restoration plans will make the great church, like the civilization that built it, a shell of itself. (Fabien Lemoine/Getty Images) “Vandalism has its newspapers, its cliques, its schools, its chairs, its public, its reasons. Vandalism has the bourgeoisie on its side. … There is nothing less popular among us than these sublime edifices made…Continue Reading
National conservatism is the fulfillment of David Brooks’ 1997 call to restoration, though the writer now finds it terrifying. American flags decorate the machine shop for 3 inch artillery shells at the Bethlehem Steel Company during WWI. Ca. 1918. (By Everett Collection/Shutterstock) Even a month after its conclusion, the second National Conservatism Conference continues to…Continue Reading
Americans are moving to self-employment over more stable options in the wake of the pandemic. That’s good. The urban exodus isn’t Americans’ only Biblical journey of late. As it turns out, unusually high numbers of Americans have also left traditional jobs since the beginning of the pandemic, either to stay home or to strike out…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian army helicopter carrying the country’s military chief crashed Wednesday in southern Tamil Nadu state, the air force said.It did not say whether Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat was injured in the accident.Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati said four people were killed and three others were injured and taken to…Continue Reading