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My interview with the Sikyong of the self-declared #Tibetan government in exile, Penpa Tsering @SikyongPTsering in @TheNatlInterest
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James Himberger
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James Himberger
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Managing Editor @TheNatlInterest. Catskill Tory. South Asia observer. Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo. Opinions my own.
Washington DC شامل ہوئے Şubat 2022
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@jgrantaddison Yeah, some popular 90s and early 00s shows expected the audience to be familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas: Frasier, Simpsons, West Wing, Family Guy. All gone now.
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Really hard not to descend into anecdata here but movies and shows used to contain far more references to a more or less shared canon of pop culture, especially vis-a-vis movies referencing other movies’ iconic moments or lines, which reinforced knowledge of and engagement with older works, thus joining that conversation. Whereas now television shows reference memes and streaming company decision-makers proceed from the first assumption their audience knows nothing and isn’t even paying attention.
The “limited” cable channel selection (far more than my parents’ generation had, far fewer than unlimited streaming) also meant Turner Classic Movies and TV Land were more prominent viewing options even for kids and teenagers.
Upstate Federalist@upstatefederlst
People out here acting like 80s and 90s kids regularly watched movies from the 50s and 60s.
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No doubt HM will impress Mayor Mamdani with his in-depth knowledge of esoteric Shia theology.
POLITICO@politico
EXCLUSIVE: King Charles is expected to meet Mayor Mamdani in New York during his visit next week. The unlikely duo will both attend a wreath laying at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan. politico.com/news/2026/04/2…
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James Himberger ری ٹویٹ کیا
“Pakistan's warm relations with the United States may cause India to limit its response to the next significant cross-border terrorist incident”
This is what Pakistan is banking on, and why it will test this and India’s resolve sooner than later. It will be dangerous for them to go with that assumption.
ANI@ANI
#WATCH | Washington, DC | Former US Ambassador to India, Kenneth Juster, says, "On Pakistan's successful courting of the Trump administration, which now extends to being an intermediary in the US-Iran talks. Obviously, on multiple levels and for many reasons, this is an irritant to India and a surprise to many of us... Pakistan's warm relations with the United States may cause India to limit its response to the next significant cross-border terrorist incident. At the very least, unlike other previous incidents, and I was an ambassador when we had the Pulwama and Balakot incident, India may have doubts as to whether the United States will support a muscular response to Pakistani-based terrorist groups. Of course, as someone involved in U.S.-India relations in both the public and private sectors over the last 26 years, I hope that we get our bilateral relationship fully back on track, with each side taking the necessary steps to truly make a mutually beneficial partnership. Given India's large population, its market size, its technological talent, and its growing military, its rise will be one of the most significant geopolitical stories of this century. In my view, it's in the interests of both the United States and India for America to be a positive part of that story." (Hudson Institute/YouTube)
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@blessed_nothing "The world has been empty since the Romans, and only their memory fills it and still prophesies liberty,"
-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Really puts into perspective how tall they were
Héraklès Citharède@HeraklesCithare
La porte de bronze du Panthéon a deux mille ans.
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@NicholasOShaug1 Rathore was a Sandhurst graduate. And look at him…he even had a blimp mustache!
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Nehru described himself as 'the last Englishman to rule India': if the extent to which you are English is the extent to which you have been nurtured by prestige English institutions, then Harrow and Cambridge would testify to this.
vyuha@bromjeet
Nathu Singh Rathore
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Between 1957 and 1979, the UK had four PMs (MacMillan, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan) that most historians agree were failures in policy terms but also either massive lads (Wilson, Callaghan) or great characters (MacMillan, Heath).
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@JulianWaller The logo should have a reference to Venus somewhere
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Four CAESAR INSTITUTE logo options from grok.
Julian Waller 📖@JulianWaller
We need the full spectrum: Cato Institute. Cicero Institute. Caesar Institute. Marius Foundation. Sulla Center. Pompey Platform. Antonine Alliance. Augustus Organization.
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@BDSixsmith Followed by “the strange death of the Quiet Revival”
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The Quiet Revival of the Rise and Fall of the Extraordinary Resurgence of the Rise and Fall of the Dramatic Return of the Quiet Revival of the Rise and Fall of the Quiet Revival.
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James Himberger ری ٹویٹ کیا
My favourite design for Washington DC is still the somewhat silly suggestion by Léon Krier to flood most of it.
Andrew McGlynn@And_McGl
The idea of beautification and public monuments in Washington is a sound principle. However, the size is utterly vulgar.
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Thanks to painstaking archival research, I can report that Leo Strauss was declared literate by the State of New York on 10/7/1944.
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President Trump has said US-Iran talks could resume in Pakistan later this week. “The Field Marshall is doing a great job,” he said—and not for the first time.
The Trump/Munir dynamic continues to be a driving factor in Pakistan’s role as a lead mediator.
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“Clausewitz would have recognized all of this immediately. The war has not failed because the bombs and missiles missed. The war failed because the men who ordered the bombing could not answer, before they ordered it or at any point thereafter, the one question that makes war something other than organized violence: What are we trying to get the enemy to do and how does this make them do it?”
Ryan Evans@EvansRyan202
War will forgive many sins, but not the confusion of aims and desired outcomes. As I write in @WarOnTheRocks, the war on Iran follows a long American tradition of striking with precision in the absence of strategy. warontherocks.com/tactical-succe…
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@GenStilicho Didn’t the Ghibellines have their own tradition of republicanism, with Cola Di Rienzo?
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@cusackandrew Glimpses of a future under the Calvinist Mongol Khanate.
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@g_shullenberger They almost made Mario Vargas Llosa president in 1990.
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As I keep saying, Peru is an actually existing neoreactionary success story. Central bank president rules as monarch, electoral politics reduced to inconsequential sideshow, solid growth. (Admittedly crime not great but better than neighbors.)
Brian Winter@BrazilBrian
Peru votes today. I was there in March and saw a country almost detached from politics. There's nothing else quite like it in Latin America. People treat politics like a media show with little importance in their daily lives. It's curious because, despite the permanent crisis of having had eight presidents in ten years, it's still one of the most dynamic economies in Latin America. Investment is growing by perhaps 10% this year. And it's domestic investors who are betting on the country. That reflects the strength of some institutions, especially the Central Bank, where its president, Julio Velarde, has remained in power for more than 20 years. Many talk about building him a statue to celebrate what he's done. But no country can endure that reality forever. It's also a country with major challenges: More than 70% of the country in the informal economy. The massive growth of illegal mining. And an economy that could be growing not at 2.5% as currently estimated, but at 5%, 6%, or 7%, given demand for its minerals and other exports. Much will depend on who is elected. And with 35 candidates, anything is possible.
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Should I just mae this account be about posting Gilbert and Sullivan clips?
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James Himberger ری ٹویٹ کیا
This is grotesque, yes, but I’ll also remind everyone that things like the safety of negotiators during parlay are long-running norms for a reason.
They’ll do it to us, and we’ll all be worse off.
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz
“Fourth, carry out a final barrage of leadership strikes, eliminating the Iranian officials who had been spared for the purpose of negotiations. Iran’s leaders must be made to understand that their lives literally depend on reaching a negotiated settlement to Trump’s liking. If they refuse to do so, they will be killed.”washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@MrMaitra Napoleon wrote romantic autofiction. Every accusation was a confession with him.
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