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							<title><![CDATA[Is Iran Facing Its Soviet Moment and Its End?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/is-iran-facing-its-soviet-moment-and-its-end-opinion-12374481</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran is weaker now than the USSR was in 1985 as its economic lifelines are strangled. Could this be the end for Tehran's regime?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who&rsquo;s Afraid of the National Guard?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-afraid-of-the-national-guard-chicago-crime-3d6a0562?st=mGHciQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Officials in Chicago resist Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s threats to do something about the violence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Must Pay for the Killing of U.S. Troops in Jordan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/iran-must-pay-killing-us-troops-jordan-opinion-1865020</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the course of some months, Iranian proxies have struck U.S. military positions more than 150 times throughout the Middle East.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago, Then and Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/chicago-then-and-now/article/2011701</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The big news out of Chicago, city of my birth and upbringing, is murder. According to a reliable website called HeyJackass!, during 2017, someone in Chicago was shot every 2 hours and 27 minutes and murdered every 12 hours and 59 minutes. There were 679 murders and 2,936 people shot in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sins of Leon Wieseltier]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-sins-of-leon-wieseltier/article/2010308</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My first contact with Leon Wieseltier was by letter. The year was 1977. Written on Balliol College, Oxford, letterhead stationery, the letter informed me that I was a force for superior culture in America, one of the few contemporary intellectuals worthy of respect, and through my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blitzing the NFL With Moral Preening]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Joseph+Epstein%3A+Blitzing+the+NFL+With+Moral+Preening</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NFL's wife-beating, child-abusing troubles, as they continue to deepen, will have at least one feel-good angle: The people it will make feel good are those who get to pronounce upon it, as many already are, expressing shock, moral outrage, dudgeon to the highest power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Missing in Ferguson, Mo.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Joseph+Epstein%3A+What's+Missing+in+Ferguson%2C+Mo.</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The lead item on much television news since the weekend has been the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer. On display was what has now become the fairly standard response in these matters: the inconsolable mother, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rahmbomb and Other Chicago Players]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/rahmbomb_547408.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Chicago elections one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s antipathies are always nicely divided. The  division is usually between idealistic incompetence and corrupt  quasi-competence. Corrupt quasi-competence, the way of the Daley  dynasty, p'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¨').';'re et fils, for better and worse generally wins the  day. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adios, Gray Lady]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/adios-gray-lady</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times used to be called the Gray Lady of American newspapers. The sobriquet implied a certain stateliness, a sense of responsibility, the possession of high virtue. But the Gray Lady is far from the grande dame she once was. For years now she has been going heavy on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Promises, Promises: Obama Disappoints]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/184774/output/print</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Loathing Sarah Palin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/720xgfha.asp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Epstein</author>
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