This is a guest post by E George Orwell defined Doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back [...]

Michael Petrou, author of a book about the working-class Canadians who went to Spain to fight against Franco’s fascist uprising in the 1930s, makes a telling point about the parallels between that war and the current civil war in Syria. It has to do with what Petrou calls “the fallacy of non-intervention.” That was the policy [...]

This is a guest post by Eyal Winston Churchill famously once said that “America can always be counted on to do the right thing after it has exhausted all other possibilities.” To paraphrase, Benjamin Netanyahu finally formed the government that everyone knew that he would form the day following the elections, after he exhausted all [...]