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<title><![CDATA[Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14948.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]]></description><category domain="14948">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Lie About Islam, Europe and the Dangers We Face]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-the-lie-about-islam?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In its latest edition, 'The Economist' presented Islamism and the European far right as two symmetrical threats. They are not, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Mohamed Atta Was Trying To Tell Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mohamed-atta-25-years-911</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The true cause of 9/11.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rape Gangs, Cultural Sensitivity and British Feminism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-uk-rape-gangs?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a movement born to protect women cannot bring itself to cry out on behalf of children because the perpetrators are too politically inconvenient, it is difficult to avoid the verdict that it is dead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-the-splc-targeted?utm_source=RCP&amp;utm_campaign=paywallpass</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The SPLC, a group that called me an 'extremist,' has been accused of funding hate groups. And it's provoked racial conflict for decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Fooled. Radical Islam Plays the Long Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/4288d441-634b-41c7-bfdc-f32a5b099ae1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is wrong to think Iran's tactical retreat will derail the Islamist project.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rep. Omar Betrays the Meaning of Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/from-clan-to-congress-why-ilhan-omar-betrays-the-meaning-of-citizenship/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I fled the warped world Omar actively endorses. I chose the world Charlie defended. America must learn the difference.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Israel Deserves Our Support]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/10/why-israel-deserves-our-support/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York. London. Paris. Madrid. Over the past three decades, at various times, these cities have been yoked together under a pall of terror that has spread right across the West.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Is Dying in Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/PDe3b</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Michel Houellebecq'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s satirical novel Soumission, the French elite submits to Islamic rule rather than accept a Rassemblement National government. Nine years after its publication, submission seems more imminent on this side of the English Channel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Left Wokery Is a Luxury Belief]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/opinion/identity-politics-wont-save-kamala-harris-in-this-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The spell of identity politics has worn thin and foundational cracks are showing, as voters notice that woke policies promising cohesion and safety have produced the opposite effect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Paradoxes of Feminism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.restorationbulletin.com/p/three-paradoxes-of-feminism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And Some Old-Fashioned Solutions]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have Been Subverted]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-have-been-subverted</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is at stake in our ability to see the threat plainly? Nothing less than the preservation of our way of life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fantasy of Open Borders]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-fantasy-of-open-borders/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before entering today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s torturous immigration debate, we would do well to remember James Baldwin. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Power without morality is no longer power,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he observed. And the border question is fundamentally a moral one.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The West Has a Deviancy Problem That's Proving Suicidal]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-west-has-a-deviancy-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When and why did American life become so coarse, amoral and ungovernable? In his classic 1993 essay, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Defining Deviancy Down'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';', the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan offered a semantic explanation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Claudine Gay and the Mafia of Mediocrity]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2024/01/claudine-gay-and-the-mafia-of-mediocrity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The DEI agenda lends itself to corruption]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of the Old Europe--and the Rise of the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/the-death-of-old-europe-and-rise-of-the-right</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thefp.com/p/the-death-of-old-europe-and-rise-of-the-right]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Geert Wilders' landslide victory in the Netherlands has shocked Europe. It didn't shock Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Evelyn Markus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Am Now a Christian]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Why I am Not a Christian'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel's Distraction a Warning to the West]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2023/10/israel-was-distracted-but-so-are-we/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How could Israel let this happen? As footage of Gazan motorbikes pelting through holes in Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'smart'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' border fence started to circulate, of paragliders descending on a desert rave, of entire families being kidnapped or butchered in their homes, that was the question...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year the West Erased Women]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-year-the-west-erased-women/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives care more about semantics than emancipation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Don Should Make Way for Ron]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/why-don-should-make-way-for-ron-desantis/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://thespectator.com/topic/why-don-should-make-way-for-ron-desantis/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I arrived in Washington, DC in 2006 to learn about US politics, someone told me that in America, there are two main parties: the party of power and the party of stupid. The latter denoted, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Republican Party. And so it continues to prove. The failure of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Western Feminists Can Learn From Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/09/what-western-feminists-can-learn-from-iran/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/09/what-western-feminists-can-learn-from-iran/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is this it? Could this, finally, be the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran? As huge crowds of women and men surge through the Iranian streets, burning hijabs and calling for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Death to Khamenei!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';', is an impossible dream finally about to come true?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With BLM Goes Beyond Its Corruption]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/09/schools-shouldnt-fly-blm-flags/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/09/schools-shouldnt-fly-blm-flags/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After more than two years of disruption, American schoolchildren are finally returning to something approaching normal education '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in-person, and without masks or social distancing or other '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'non-pharmaceutical interventions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. But many of these children are returning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Infidels Will Not Be Silenced]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/08/the-infidels-will-not-be-silenced/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/08/the-infidels-will-not-be-silenced/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thirty-three years ago, when I was a teenager in Nairobi, I was a book burner. The year was 1989, the year of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' fatwa'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' against Salman Rushdie, and I was seduced by the rising tide of Islamism. I greeted the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' fatwa'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with glee.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Must Fall]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/07/harvard-must-fall/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/07/harvard-must-fall/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is the point of university? It used to be, when Harvard was founded in 1636, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. But in recent years the university has taken on an altogether narrower character. Learning is no longer enough. Activism is demanded. Yale and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Buffalo and the Myth of Racist America]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/05/buffalo-and-the-myth-of-racist-america/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/05/buffalo-and-the-myth-of-racist-america/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What connects the tragedies of May 25, 2020, and May 14, 2022? The straightforward answer, at least according to many in the media and on the Left, is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' systemic racism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Desperation of Biden's Disinformation Board]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/05/the-desperation-of-bidens-disinformation-board/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/05/the-desperation-of-bidens-disinformation-board/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1918, Woodrow Wilson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic administration passed a piece of legislation it hoped would accelerate the end of the First World War. The new law didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t directly concern the military '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' nor was it a revolutionary act of foreign policy. Rather, its target was ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Need a Trans Olympics?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/03/do-we-need-a-trans-olympics/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/03/do-we-need-a-trans-olympics/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lia Thomas should never have been able to compete against women]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs an Energy Policy, Not Climate Change Activism]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/how-energy-will-influence-policy-in-2022/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://spectatorworld.com/topic/how-energy-will-influence-policy-in-2022/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One issue more than any other will dominate airtime and influence policy in 2022: energy. Americans are seeing the highest prices at the pump in seven years. Since Biden took office, average gas prices are up by more than $1 a gallon. In November, gas prices in Mono County, California...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Was Set Up to Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/01/kamala-harris-was-set-up-to-fail/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2022/01/kamala-harris-was-set-up-to-fail/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was a young girl in Somalia, I would listen to the grown-ups around me ask my brother: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What would you like to be when you grow up?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' No one ever asked me this.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Changed Our Minds in 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/how-we-changed-our-minds-in-2021</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/how-we-changed-our-minds-in-2021]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enes Kanter Freedom on his name. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on liberalism. Tim Urban on religion. Plus: Nellie Bowles, Ross Douthat, Chlo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' Valdary, Karol Markowicz, and Balaji Srinivasan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In California, the Affluent Look Away While Their Cities Burn]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my home state of California, smash-and-grab is fast becoming a way of life. Crime is a rampant, daily occurrence. Just this week, two of my close friends were robbed near San Francisco.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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