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<title><![CDATA[Dan Hannan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22348.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dan Hannan]]></description><category domain="22348">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[End of Iran&rsquo;s Reign of Terror Will Benefit Entire World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/end-iran-brutal-reign-terror-151052023.html?guccounter=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What do these countries have in common? Argentina, Australia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States. The answer is that all have been on the receiving end of Iranian terrorism, either directly or through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why No Jewish Lives Matter Movement?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/why-no-jewish-lives-matter-movement</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a black man was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, it was treated as an attack on black people everywhere. From Baden, Ontario, to Bridgetown, Barbados, to Bangalore and Bloemfontein, statues of white men were taken down. Police officers around the world sank to one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lockdowns Were for Nothing. Really, Nothing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-numbers-are-in-and-we-can-say-it-with-certainty-lockdowns-were-worse-than-useless</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was all for nothing. Really, for nothing. The miseries we inflicted on ourselves after March 2020 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the school closures, the ruined businesses, the debts, the authoritarianism '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' were caused by a moment of lightheaded panic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Pick the One Candidate Biden Can Beat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/will-republicans-really-pick-the-one-candidate-biden-can-beat</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats have left the goal wide open. Almost anyone could defeat President Joe Biden, whose physical and mental decline can no longer be hidden from the public.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[20 Years Ago, War in Iraq Was Launched on a Falsehood]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-were-they-thinking-when-they-chose-to-invade-iraq</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, the U.S. set in motion the most disastrous'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' foreign policy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' blunder in its history. On March 19, 2003, 160,000 American and British troops, accompanied by auxiliary detachments from Australia and Poland,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' invaded Iraq.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coming to Terms: Covid Lockdowns Were All for Naught]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/coming-to-terms-the-covid-lockdowns-were-all-for-naught</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How different it feels this time around. Broadcasters are lustily cheering anti-lockdown protesters in China. Members of Congress offer unqualified support. President Joe Biden, although more guarded, is sympathetic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Demands for 'Climate Reparations' Are Laughable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/demands-for-climate-reparations-are-laughable</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The demands for climate reparations from wealthy countries are so absurd, so unscientific, and so offensive to natural justice that it is difficult to know where the criticism should begin.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Accept That Covid Mandates Are Pointless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/we-must-accept-covid-19-as-an-endemic-disease</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Never mind how virulent the coronavirus is. The key point is that it is now endemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Should Spain Despise Its Greatest Explorer?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-should-spain-despise-its-greatest-explorer</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monuments to Christopher Columbus are regularly vandalized throughout the Americas, but Spain remains faithful to his memory. Last week, I visited Seville Cathedral, where his supposed remains are carried shoulder-high by massive statues representing the kings of Castille, Leon, Navarre,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Better Sweden Does on Covid, the Angrier They Get]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-better-sweden-does-on-the-coronavirus-the-angrier-they-get</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My columns on Sweden's laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus always provoke an angry response. But it is striking that, the better Sweden does, the angrier its critics become.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rushmore Speech Shows Trump May Be Hard to Beat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-rushmore-speech-shows-he-may-be-hard-to-beat</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had all but written President Trump off. His style is ill-suited to a crisis. When growth was strong and unemployment was low, voters were happy to indulge his chaotic, self-pitying streams of consciousness. But when the coronavirus struck, his narcissistic gabbling suddenly started to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Soleimani Death Fits Trump Desire for Orderly Withdrawal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/soleimanis-death-fits-trumps-desire-for-orderly-withdrawal-from-the-middle-east</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are withdrawals, and then, there are withdrawals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Will Win, and Britain Will at Last Move On]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/boris-johnson-will-win-and-britain-will-at-last-move-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the fourth time in as many years, the United Kingdom is going to the polls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris, Brexit, and the Politicization of Britain's Judiciary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/boris-brexit-and-the-politicization-of-britains-judiciary</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A politicized court rules against an elected government. Leftists cheer and whoop and post admiring profiles of the judges who agreed with them. Conservatives complain that the judiciary is overstepping its authority and ruling on the basis of what it thinks the law ought to say rather...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Will Be an Election, and Brexit Will Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/there-will-still-be-an-election-in-the-uk-and-brexit-will-still-happen</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Life in Britain is pretty great right now. It's the loveliest time of year: The rankness of high summer has passed, but the hedgerows remain thick and green, flecked with the first hints of autumn color.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Already Think Plenty About Slavery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/americans-already-think-plenty-about-slavery</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans don't think enough about slavery? Seriously? As a frequent visitor to your country, I'd argue that you think of little else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UK 'Remainers' Will Tear Down Democracy to Get Their Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-uks-remainers-will-tear-down-democracy-and-all-its-rules-to-get-their-way</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom, the New York Times proclaims with its customary tone of Olympian certainty, has gone mad.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[May's Brexit Deal Is Awful for UK--and It Will Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-hannan-the-open-conspiracy-to-foil-brexit-is-having-its-day-but-it-will-fail</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Imagine Trump doing Brexit,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' declared the classical scholar excitedly. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d go in bloody hard. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a very, very good...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A U.S.-U.K. Deal Would Revolutionize World Trade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dan-hannan-a-us-uk-deal-will-revolutionize-world-trade</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s take Donald Trump both seriously and literally. When he says he wants to abolish all trade barriers, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assume he means it. Back in June, the President stunned his fellow heads of government at the Quebec G7 summit by telling them: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No tariffs, no barriers, that's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Soft Bigotry of the New York Times]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-soft-bigotry-of-the-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If l'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'affaire Jeong has taught us one thing, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s that the people who claim most vociferously to be anti-racist are nothing of the sort. On the contrary, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re obsessed with race, seeing almost everything through the prism of ethnicity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Writing Is on the Wall]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-writing-is-on-the-wall/article/2609195</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The EU is breaking records for unpopularity. Its leaders have been rebuffed in referendums in the U.K. and Italy. Anti-Brussels candidates are leading the polls in France and the Netherlands. How has it responded? By unveiling a $350 million new palace in Brussels. The monstrous new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Working Classes vs. the Smirking Classes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-working-classes-vs.-the-smirking-classes/article/2595871</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You want a pithy, one-sentence summary of what happened in Britain's recent referendum on leaving the EU? Try this, from a woman in a call center in my district: It's the working classes against the smirking classes.Now the British class system is so tortuous and complicated that we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Won Our Independence Back!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/we-won-our-independence-back/article/2595380</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm still reeling from the magnitude of it.When Britain voted to leave the European Union, it was defying the entire corporatist establishment: the leaders of all the main parties; the mega-banks and multi-nationals that use EU regulation to freeze out competitors; the Brussels-funded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.K.'s Left Wing Takes Hard Anti-U.S. Turn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u.k.s-left-wing-takes-hard-anti-u.s.-turn/article/2571919</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in a lifetime of political analysis, I find myself lost for words. Nothing I write can do justice to the calamity that Britain's Labour Party has just inflicted on itself. The best I can do, to give you a sense of the man newly elected as Leader of Her Majesty's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shakespeare &amp; Decline of America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/shakespeare-and-the-decline-of-america/article/2566590</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are moments when I want to weep for America. They often come, now that I think of it, when I read the Washington Post. Last week, that newspaper ran an article by a long-serving English teacher in Sacramento called Dana Dusbiber, who dislikes Shakespeare so much that she has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Wakes to the Importance of Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/paris-attack-wakes-europeans-to-importance-of-free-speech/article/2558413</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all know the traditional routine that follows an Islamist terror attack: momentary shock, then platitudinous disapproval, then condemnation of Western foreign policy, then hand-wringing about an imagined Islamophobic backlash. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen it again and again, even following such...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Attempt to Europeanize America]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576176620582972608.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dan Hannan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about  the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. "Pah!" I replied  (or words to that effect). "Your president was plainly born in  Brussels."American conservatives have struggled  to press President Obama's...]]></description>
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