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Good morning, it’s Thursday, March 11, 2021. One year ago today, as part of a Women’s History Month series curated by Dana Rubin, RCP readers were treated to the wisdom of journalist and author Lillie Devereux Blake. Titled “A Woman Spoke Today,” the series featured a cross section of addresses made by women at pivotal historical points. Ms. Blake’s came in the spring of 1883 in response to lectures by Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Church in Manhattan and a trustee of Columbia University. Dix’s weekly homilies imparted his vision of “Christian womanhood.” Finding this view of ...

The ongoing India-China face-off in Eastern Ladakh may appear to be a small-scale confrontation between conventional forces. But it is still one between nuclear-armed states, and the threat of escalation cannot be denied. In its wake, India has carried out a series of missile tests, while China too has fired a number of ballistic missiles near the Paracel and Spratly Islands, apparently to warn the US, but hardly something New Delhi can ignore. This analysis makes three key points: the threat from China is likely to persist; India needs to adapt balancing responses to the threat to the requir...