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Armas No. 7 — Armas Weekend Reader

14-15 January 2023

Joshua Treviño
Jan 12
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Armas No. 7 — Armas Weekend Reader
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Moonshine and a hot rod, a vanished American folkway.

This week: the unthinkable in 2023, war in Mexico, Xi’s bookshelf, the moonshine runners, woke school administrators hate their Asian-American students, Nazi childcare, Luttwak tries to stab a man, survivorship bias, and more. Let’s go —

1) “I have repeatedly expressed my support for the allied military effort to thwart Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. But the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation.”

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-push-for-peace/

2) “Public school officials caused harm to Asian students’ college applications by not notifying them of important academic achievements.”

https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/06/americas-systemic-racism-problem-is-mostly-in-woke-anti-asian-education-bureaucracies/

3) “So, will 2023 see major powers go to war or break a nearly 80-year nuclear taboo? Will political crises, economic hardship, and climate breakdown cause social meltdown in not just individual countries but a swath of the world? Worst-case answers to this year’s big questions seem far-fetched. But after the past few years, it would be complacent to dismiss the unthinkable.”

https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-conflicts-watch-2023

4) “Conservatism will only thrive when it ceases to accommodate the unthinking morality of liberal orthodoxy.”

https://dc.claremont.org/value-pluralism-and-the-road-to-relativism/

5) “Most of the fentanyl and meth coming into the U.S. is now manufactured and distributed by two Mexican drug operations, the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, often using Chinese chemical components. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the cartels’ rivalry is focused not merely on feeding the bottomless appetite of American drug users for cheap and powerful substances, but also to create an entire new wave of consumer demand.”

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