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Mene Ukueberuwa

Mene Ukueberuwa is politics editor at The Free Press. He was previously a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, and an editor at City Journal and The New Criterion.

Things Worth Remembering: ‘White Christmas’ Is a World War II Anthem

Today, we see it as a quintessential secular Christmas song. To its original audience in 1941, however, the lyrics were impossible not to associate with…

December 14, 2025

Mene Ukueberuwa

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