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Are We Tipping into a New World War?
Hezbollah supporters in southern Lebanon on October 23, 2023. (Photo by Manu Brabo via Getty Images)
Historian Walter Russell Mead explains how the battle between Israel and Hamas connects to changing global forces that affect every American.
By Bari Weiss
10.31.23 — U.S. Politics
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If you’ve watched the news over the past few weeks, you’ve surely heard from many experts. People who know a great deal about Hamas or Hezbollah or Iran or China or Russia—regional experts. Or subject matter experts who can tell us about cyber warfare or decolonization or, for example, the way that foreign governments have influenced higher education in…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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