How Greece and Cyprus Helped Israel Battle Iran
And the global significance of their alliance.
August 15, 2025
Lessons of the Sydney Sweeney controversy.
It seems that every week brings with it some fundamentally silly controversy that manages to get the attention of the entire media for a day or two. Last week, it was a fashion commercial featuring a young and attractive actress named Sydney Sweeney, and the punning of “jeans” and “genes.” Left-wing commentators identified the advertisement as a thinly veiled endorsement of Nazi-style racism; some on the far-right agreed and praised it for that reason; sane people, meanwhile, just shook their heads in disbelief. I didn’t expect to cover this news item (if it can be called that) in Mosaic, but then I came across the following analysis by Josh Kaplan:
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Lessons of the Sydney Sweeney controversy.
It seems that every week brings with it some fundamentally silly controversy that manages to get the attention of the entire media for a day or two. Last week, it was a fashion commercial featuring a young and attractive actress named Sydney Sweeney, and the punning of “jeans” and “genes.” Left-wing commentators identified the advertisement as a thinly veiled endorsement of Nazi-style racism; some on the far-right agreed and praised it for that reason; sane people, meanwhile, just shook their heads in disbelief. I didn’t expect to cover this news item (if it can be called that) in Mosaic, but then I came across the following analysis by Josh Kaplan:
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