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The Barnes Brief: Monday, August 11, 2025

Robert Barnes

6 hours ago

Art of the Day

I. INTROUDCTION

A. Appearances

Scheduled: LIVE w/ The Duran, Tuesday at 10 a.m. eastern.

B. Art of the Day: The famed Russian painting celebrating the Cossacks legendary insult to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Legend has it that after the Sultan demanded deference following his losses on the battlefield, citing all his fancy titles, the notorious Cossacks responded in kind: “Sultan, son of the cursed Sultan of taker, companion of Satan, hellish abysmal…” filled with insults, which the painting depicts their roguish laughter as they design even more cutting insults of the self-important Sultan, concluding “we will not yield to you, but we will fight you”, and who did and won. Today’s EU reminds me of the Sultan, demanding again surrender after defeat.

C. Wisdom of the Day: Zelensky is “irrational, detached from reality, and uninterested in peace.” Douglas Macgregor, former Trump military and national security advisor.

D. Cultural Recommendation: How the West Brought War to Ukraine, a good short treatise on the war and its reasons. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62693035-how-the-west-brought-war-to-ukraine?

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August 10, 2025

Board Poll: Sunday Topics

Pick your favorite topic, if any, and add your own topic, question or comment in the replies below as the Show Notes for the Sunday Show.

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August 08, 2025

The Barnes Brief: Weekend of August 8, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTROUDCTION

A. Appearances

B. Art of the Day

C. Wisdom of the Day

D. Cultural Recommendation

II. THE EVIDENCE

A. Daily News of Interest

B. Daily Deep Dive: UBI

C. Cases of Consequence

III. CLOSING ARGUMENT: Ike Farewell Address Government Academia Bureaucratic Complex

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes

August 07, 2025

The Barnes Brief: Thursday, August 7, 2025

I. INTROUDCTION

A. Appearances

How Do Trump’s 2024 Voters View His First Six Months:
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B. Art of the Day

The cubbie hole cloistered in the corner, to snuggle up with a good book and discover new worlds, uncover new ideas, and unveil new truths, only limited by the married imagination of the author and the reader.

C. Wisdom of the Day

“With the Russian, it is to play fair, or do not play.” Otto von Bismarck.

D. Cultural Recommendation

The Naked Gun, as recommended by no less the critic than The Critical Drinker.

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes

August 06, 2025

The Barnes Brief: Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Appearances

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Art of the Day: The Baptism of the Rus, a moment so monumental, they made literary traditions and even films about it. The fresco dons the St. Vladimir Cathedral…in Kiev. Prince Vladimir’s conversion to Orthodox Christianity aligned the eastern Slavs toward the west culturally and away from the east. Guess where they were baptized? In the Denier River in the heart of Ukraine.

Wisdom of the Day: “Both for historical and institutional reasons, the U.S. political system—and, for that matter, much of the U.S. business community—is ill-suited for producing well-designed “grand strategies.” Kevin Phillips.

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