The speech Vice President J.D. Vance gave at the Munich Security Conference last week continues to reverberate. I don’t think I can recall a recent speech that has had as much reaction and response as this one, and it was on top of the one Vance gave at the Paris meeting on artificial intelligence. The Critic Magazine in the UK said Europe deserved it; The Spectator says it sent shockwaves across the continent. Matt Taibbi at Racket News looked at the reaction and said the mask has dropped.
To prove Vance wrong, CBS followed German police who made arrests for violations of speech, and somehow managed to prove Vance right. Ben Domenech, a former CBS newsman, wonders why CBS has developed a penchant for censorship.
Meanwhile, the new Administration in Washington makes its first move against sex trafficking. Oliver Wiseman at The Free Press describes what’s happening overall in Washington as the “everything is broken” administration.
More Good Reads
Patrick Colquhoun and the Thames River Police – A London Inheritance.
Mud – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
The (British) police are ruining their reputation – Fred de Fossard at The Critic Magazine.
5 Tips for Writing Page-Turning Historical Fiction – Julie Hartley at Writer’s Digest.
“Street Light,” poem by John Crowe Ranson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Photograph: Poet John Crowe Ranson in 1941.
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