Reading archive 2023-01-19

Opinion  The America trap: Why our enemies often underestimate us - "Americans, British and French during World War I and for decades afterward assumed that Bolshevism posed the greatest threat to liberal democracy. But Bolshevism proved less easily exported than both its proponents and its opponents believed. Ostracized by the rest of Europe, the Soviet Union turned inward to wrestle with the transformation of its society. When democracies fell in the 1920s and ’30s, they fell to the Right, not the Left.

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"The phenomenon of a single power fighting two full-scale wars on land and sea, financing and producing enough military equipment for itself and its allies, while at the same time also raising its people’s standard of living, was so unprecedented that Hitler could be forgiven for not having anticipated it. He admitted to the Japanese ambassador, soon after declaring war, that he did 'not know yet' how 'one defeats the USA.' He soon came to regard the war with America as 'a tragedy, illogical, devoid of fundamental reality.'"

‘Environmental racism’ and the mysterious cars rusting in D.C. woods: “They don’t have cars in the woods of Rock Creek Park,” said advocate Nathan Harrington. “I don’t see why we should.”

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Ukraine could be an ‘inflection point for the Western world’: ‘The only thing that matters for the future of the world is how this thing plays out’

A New Jersey sports bettor tells all and issues a warning: Don’t do it | Opinion

Supreme Court Still Doesn't Know Who Leaked Draft Abortion Ruling: Eight months later, an investigative team hasn't yet identified who leaked the draft of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.