The Federalist Daily Briefing for 07/18/2017

Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. July 18, 2017 [Sen. Patty Murray Calls For Resignation Of Trump Official Over Accurate Campus Rape Comments]( By Joy Pullmann The victimhood brigade is calling concerns for equality, accuracy, and equal treatment under the laws 'rape apology,' polarizing any reality-based discussion. Yet they do have a point. [Full article]( [Unable To Confront The Migrant Crisis, Europe Is Committing Suicide]( By John Daniel Davidson As Europe’s migrant crisis enters a new phase, it’s clear that European leaders have neither the will nor desire to preserve their own civilization. [Full article]( [Radiohead, Friend Of The Jews]( By David Harsanyi By rejecting Roger Waters and other anti-Semites in the divestment movement, Radiohead exemplifies the genuine spirit of liberalism. [Full article]( [How The Great Jane Austen Proves That Prudence Is At The Heart Of Happiness]( By Gracy Olmstead Throughout each and every one of her novels, Jane Austen explores the practical outworkings of virtue—making her the mother of 'the mother of all virtues.' [Full article]( [Republicans Need A Foreign Policy That’s Neither Isolationist Nor Hawkish]( By Megan G. Oprea The GOP has struggled to define its foreign policy views, waffling between neoconservatism and anti-interventionism. But we need a third way. [Full article]( [Why The Latest Study Saying ‘Have Fewer Kids To Save The Planet’ Is Junk Science]( By Lyman Stone In the vast majority of cases, how many kids you have just won’t affect any environmental outcomes. Plus the study on which these articles were based is junk science. [Full article]( [Why Do We Love Jane Austen? Because Of Her Timeless Morality]( By Cecil Bohanon Not widely read until after her untimely passing at age 41, Jane Austen’s works became popular around 15 years later, were all republished in 1832, and have not gone out of print since. [Full article]( [NY Magazine Says Earth Will Be Uninhabitable By End Of Century. Wrong]( By H. Sterling Burnett In his New York Magazine article, 'The Uninhabitable Earth,' doomsayer David Wallace-Wells issues numerous dire warnings that aren’t supported by science. [Full article]( [Why It’s Time To Remove The United States’ Air Base From Qatar]( By Eliot Bakker With Doha more defiant than ever, the United States needs to take more drastic action and remove a crutch that has been propping up the emirate for too long. [Full article]( [Why Young Adults May Embrace Jane Austen’s ‘Happily Ever After’ In Marriage]( By Elizabeth Kantor Despite the progressive lessons of their elders, many young people are embracing old-fashioned norms like marriage and traditional gender roles. [Full article]( [Claremont Institute Announces Ryan Williams As New President]( By Mollie Hemingway Ryan Williams is the first president of the influential Claremont Institute whose formation represents the fulfilling of Claremont’s mission. [Full article]( [This Man Risked His Life To Serve Our Country. Now He Finally Gets To Come To The U.S.]( By Bre Payton An Afghan interpreter who served alongside American troops for 13 years has finally been allowed to come to the United States after five years of pleading with the State Department. [Full article]( [Women’s March Treks 18 Miles To Protest National Rifle Association]( By Jordyn Pair The Women’s March organized an 18-mile trek from the National Rifle Association headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia to the Department of Justice in downtown DC. [Full article]( [What Shakespeare’s Roman Plays Teach Us About Modern Politics]( By The Federalist Staff Professor Paul Cantor places Shakespeare's works as central to his analyses of pop culture, philosophy, and ancient history. [Full article]( [The Hypocritical Dishonesty Of The Net Neutrality Campaign]( By Robert Tracinski Underneath Mozilla's blatantly hypocritical posturing about 'censorship' and freedom of speech, net neutrality is really just about a money grab. [Full article]( [George Romero Reminded Us The Real Danger Is That We’re The Zombies]( By Rich Cromwell Without director George Romero, there would have been no ‘The Lost Boys,’ nor scores of other horror movies that sought to make sense of what is going on with the world. [Full article]( [Los Angeles Times Denies Request To Correct False Claims By Disgraced Columnist Michael Hiltzik]( By Sean Davis The Los Angeles Times is refusing to retract bogus claims about Obamacare's Medicaid expansion made by disgraced columnist Michael Hiltzik. [Full article]( CLIMATE IMPERIALISM BY FAMILY PLANNING week, Emmanuel Macron came under fire for his remarks about what Africa would need to change in order to be on a path toward development. Whether you read his remarks as insensitive or not, they do reflect a fairly consistent view about what the developing world needs to focus on on the part of international leaders: fewer kids. It’s a view that looks to the developing world as the real problem because it remains insufficiently developed, with more kids and less efficiency. And at its root is the issue of climate change, and the degree to which nations turn to it to justify their population control aims. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter]( | friend on Facebook | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2017 The Federalist, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive e-mail updates from TheFederalist.com. Our mailing address is: The Federalist 8647 Richmond Highway Suite 618Alexandria, VA 22309 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](