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Martin Gurri: When Things Fall Apart
A collapsed freeway in Oakland, California, after an earthquake in 1989. (Photo by MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)
Perverse policies and institutional rot have turned America upside down.
By Martin Gurri
11.19.23 — U.S. Politics
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On October 7, Hamas, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, slipped through the borders at Gaza and attacked Israel. The ensuing barbarities are by now well known. Young women were raped, entire families were tortured and murdered, infants were burned alive, grandmothers were carried off as human trophies to Gaza.

Yet it was the Israeli countera…

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Martin Gurri
Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst and author of The Revolt of the Public. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Mercatus Center; his essays have appeared in Discourse, City Journal, and UnHerd, among other publications.
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