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Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast, defender of experts. Legacy blue check who'd have paid more for a better Twitter.

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linkhttps://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/ calendar_today10-01-2012 04:23:15

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Every partisan has to ask, what's too much for the party to ask? Barr has answered that there's no such line for him, to his eternal discredit.

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It’s only a matter of time before Russian GPS jamming kills someone in the Baltic region.

NATO may not think it’s at war with Russia, but Russia is acting like it is at war with NATO.

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He really is ghastly, and not much different from the evangelicals who think Trump is somehow God's instrument.

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I have to admit that when Dr. Bradburn, the director, took me into the special collections room here to see actual documents written by Washington, I couldn't resist the 'which of these opens the door to the treasure room' joke, which was lame but necessary.

I have to admit that when Dr. Bradburn, the director, took me into the special collections room here to see actual documents written by Washington, I couldn't resist the 'which of these opens the door to the treasure room' joke, which was lame but necessary.
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Columbia University has known for at least 3 months about this student’s threats, but barred him from campus only this week, after his diatribe was reported in the press.

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Columbia University has known for at least 3 months about this student’s threats, but barred him from campus only this week, after his diatribe was reported in the press. nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyr…
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Just to be clear, when I worked for Richard M. Nixon, I was mostly in the domestic policy shop. Foreign policy was too senior for me, but Mr. Nixon would occasionally enlist me to go see what Henry was up to

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I'd like to see data, considering that less than 1 percent of the population is in the military, and that veterans are about 6 percent.
The idea that the students are protesting because Mom and Dad were sent overseas - I guess there's a secret draft - seems, ah, shaky.

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They were protesting *getting drafted*, and when the draft ended, the protests ended.

The war went on for more than two more years.

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When I was a USG employee, I would write an article about Trump (never in my USG office or using USG time/resources) and my institution would get repeated calls to fire me for breaking the law.
Meanwhile:

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