The Weekender: Context is Everything
Three stories, perfectly packed for your weekend. Today's edition: who's really winning in the Middle East, controversy rules the day, and antisemitism...in America.
Meet The Weekender, a weekend digest that highlights just three reads from the week and why they’re worth your time.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with saying.
Great newsletters are the same.
This week we’ll avoid discussing people and instead focus on events and ideas. In particular, the events in the Middle East and ideas behind your phone’s algorithms and anti-semitism.
Welcome to The Weekender 🤙
From The Free Press: Iran is Winning the War
There’s a theme here. You’ll pick up on it by the end, but to summarize: context matters, especially historical context.
This article from The Free Press gives four distinct advantages that Iran, ever the puppet-master behind the curtain, continues to wield over the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. There is a complicated game at play, more than just what’s happening in Gaza.
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